By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gregor Jordan
Starring: Ed Harris | Glenn Fitzgerald | Joaquin Phoenix | Scott Glenn
Country: germany, united_kingdom
Year: 2003
Running time: 98
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252299/combined
Bob G. says: “Before BUFFALO SOLDIERS falls apart, at exactly the 3/4 mark, it is among the best and most compulsively watchable of the many military satires made. It contains horror that is at times as devastating as anything thrown at us in FULL
METAL JACKET and provides characters as engaging as in CATCH-22, and it does so in the perfect context for such a film: the cold-war inertia of 1989, right before the fall of the Berlin wall. Joaquin Phoenix carries the perfect mixture of boredom and contempt on his face, and as his nemesis, Scott Glenn is a caldron of bubbling insanity. Ed Harris turns in a gem of a performance as a sympathetically incompetent Colonel, Liz McGovern makes a welcome return to the screen (virtually unrecognizable in a screen of makeup), and Glenn Fitzgerald fuels a hilarious and horrifying scene involving a tank and a detour though an Oktoberfest.” 4 cats