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www.exclaim.ca - : There’s a fine line between action-packed and insanely earnest, and Beachhead crawls defiantly from the former to the latter. It’s WWII and four soldiers are sent to collect information from a French planter behind Japanese lines. By the time they’ve crawled through a substantial stretch of jungle, they’ve been reduced to two (conflicted CO Frank Lovejoy and lesser-ranked badass Tony Curtis), neither of whom particularly likes the other. The jungle is hot, the enemy is deadly and to top it all off the planter in question is very possibly a spy — just another day at the war office. As a specimen of the Sgt. Rock genus, this has its qualities, particularly a strong sense of conviction and grungy atmospherics that make you feel the sweat and filth of jungle conflict... more...
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