Opposing Force

1986
R
1h 40m

IMDb RATING

5.2/10

978

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A group of soldiers, including a female for the first time, enroll in the ultimate training mission. They parachute onto an island in the Philippines, only to find that the commandant will stop at nothing to try and break his trainees.

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A major avenges a woman officer wronged by a brutal instructor of an escape-and-evasion course.A major avenges a woman officer wronged by a brutal instructor of an escape-and-evasion course.A major avenges a woman officer wronged by a brutal instructor of an escape-and-evasion course.

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IMDb RATING

5.2/10

978

YOUR RATING

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Tom Skerritt

Logan

Lisa Eichhorn

Casey

Anthony Zerbe

Becker

Richard Roundtree

Stafford

Robert Wightman

Botts

John Considine

Gen. MacDonald

George Cheung

Tuan
(as George Kee Cheung)

Paul Joynt

Ripkin

Jay Louden

Stevenson

Ken Wright

Conway

Dan Hamilton

Ross

Warren McLean

Dunn
(as Warren MacLean)

John Melcher

Jerrell

Scott Sanders

De Carlo

Willie Williams

Fisher
(as Jerald Williams)

Steve Rogers

Brady
(as Steven Rogers)

David Light

Guard

Bent Pederson

Guard

Director
- Eric Karson
Writer
- Linda J. Cowgill
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Trivia
In the Blu-ray from Scorpion releasing, there is an audio commentary by director Karson who speaks glowingly of all of the cast, particularly Eichhorn who Karson greatly admired, the production's sensitivity to all of the cast members who had to do nudity (along with Roundtree staying in character to distract from the awkwardness of the sequence), and the mix of Southern California and the Philippines sometimes with the same scenes or in pickup shots, particularly during the climax.

Goofs
When Casey gets put into the isolation box for the first time, she is wearing an orange POW poncho. A close up of her inside the box, however, clearly shows the outline of her unit patch on the shoulder of her flight suit. When she is taken out, she is still wearing the poncho. Only during the second time she is put into the box is she wearing her flight suit.

Quotes
Casey: Look, You got a limp and I got tits; these aren't great things to have in the military. So, why don't we pair up and get through the course as best as we can?

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6/10

A mixed bag of torture and madness .......

"Opposing Force", or "Hell Camp" can be divided in half. The first half is honestly quite boring as volunteers for a secret military experiment on P.O.W. torture are degraded and tortured like you have seen in dozens of war films. Only here it lasts for just short of an hour. Anthony Zerbe is the Commander running the "Hell Camp", along with Richard Roundtree. Until Zerbe completely loses it and rapes Lisa Eichhorn, nothing much happens except the usual P.O.W. stuff. The rape sets off a rebellion and escape that turns the movie into a chase in the jungle similar to any "Most Dangerous Game" clone. While the second half is definitely better than the first, everything about "Opposing Force" is so familiar, that it all becomes a "so what". - MERK