Heartbreak Ridge

1986 Directed by Clint Eastwood

...the scars run deep.

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.

Clint Eastwood Marsha Mason Everett McGill Moses Gunn Mario Van Peebles Eileen Heckart Bo Svenson Boyd Gaines Arlen Dean Snyder Vincent Irizarry Ramón Franco Tom Villard Begonya Plaza Peter Jason Mike Gomez Rodney Hill Peter Koch Richard Venture J. C. Quinn John Eames Thom Sharp John Gallagher John Hostetter Holly Shelton-Foy Nicholas Worth Timothy Fall Jon Pennell Trish Garland George Hartmann Show All…

Alternative Titles

Kartelio ketera, O Destemido Senhor da Guerra, El guerrero solitario, Wzgórze Złamanych Serc, Wzgórze Rozdartych Serc

war comedy action drama

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Review by Steve G 🐝 ★★★½ 2

Top Ten Heartbreak Ridge Insults - RANKED!
10) “You couldn’t take care of a wet dream.”
9) “The only thing you could build is a good case of haemorrhoids.”
8) “Go hump somebody’s else leg, muttface.”
7) “Keep dreaming, shitball.”
6) “If I was half as ugly as you, sergeant major, I’d be a poster boy for a prophylactic.”
5) “Maybe some communist bastard is gonna make an appointment to pop you a new asshole in your forehead.”
4) “Did your nightstick file for divorce?”
3) “Webster, if Powers ever comes to a sudden halt, your head is gonna end up halfway up his ass.”
2) “You pull another suckhead play like that, the only thing that’s gonna beat you…
Review by Michael501 📺 ★★½ 5

Clint Eastwood A Retrospective - Week 31
Marine Sgt. Thomas Highway (Clint Eastwood) is a decorated veteran of two wars. On his last posting before retirement, he is surrounded by officers with no combat experience who view him as an odd, even dangerous, holdover. Highway is assigned to train a group of undisciplined recruits including Cpl. Stitch Jones (Mario Van Peebles), a slick hustler who has previously encountered Highway. As the old soldier prepares his men for a war they don't believe will come, the U.S. invades Grenada.
An aging Clint Eastwood, playing a discipline-challenged U.S. Marine Corps gunnery sergeant named Tom Highway (as in, "it's my way or the Highway"), gets a new lease on military life by being…
Review by I’m The only Juan ★★★½ 2

Never expected to say Clint Eastwood directed a pretty funny war film but here we are, believe me I’m just as surprised as you are.
Review by Kevin Jones ★★★ 2

Ranked: Clint Eastwood
Most war films make this war look like hell. Clint Eastwood's Heartbreak Ridge is not one of those films. Instead, it is honestly surreal and light portrayal of war that also has to be one of the few films to ever show the conflict in Grenada as its climax. With his time in the Marines coming to an end, Korean and Vietnam War veteran Tom Highway (Clint Eastwood) is sent back to his old post to be the Gunnery Sergeant for the Recon unit. Quickly discovering that they are all useless, he must beat them into becoming Marines, while also contending with the bureaucratic and schoolboy officers he reports to in the unit. Fast-paced, rather light, and…
Review by CJ Probst ★★½ 12

I'm a pretty big fan of Eastwood's work in general though I must say, I haven't been that excited about his acting roles outside of the Western genre. This is a film I've always heard about but had never seen. I have to say, it took me 3 separate attempts to get al of the way through this and I was somewhat disappointed in the end.
They tried to make his character way too hard. This overblown brand of machismo just hasn't aged very well. If at some point in the film he had caught a bullet with his teeth, it would not have felt out of place.
Definitively average.
Review by Muddguts ★★★

A fairly solid military dramedy that has some ups and downs and garners some satisfaction here and there. It’s not one of my favourite Eastwood films and part of that can be blamed on a few of the characters and the unrealistic combat scenes.
Mario Van Peebles as a hip hop Jimi Hendrix was incredibly cheesy and would have been in 1986 and Highway’s ex-wife was too much of a bitter sourpuss to take a liking too. The combat was a little underwhelming. You had a dozen marines up against a couple pockets of enemies.
It has been at least 25 years since I watched it last and I am confident that this was my last watch. I don’t see myself wanting to sit down with it again when I am 74 😆
Review by ClinTarantino ★★★

Eastwood November #13

Another solid war comedy drama with and this time also by Eastwood which doesn’t reach the greatness of Kelly’s heroes especially through some missing fun Kelly’s heroes has but that’s ok. It’s solid for what it is. Clint in an untypical bit suited army style Leads the movie to have a good time but yeah nothing special and so definitely not among of Eastwood’s career highlights.
Review by Joe ★★½

Clint's shadowy but unfussy direction can make even this silly shit watchable, but it feels all the world like a script for one of those Clinton-era peacetime military comedies was somehow beamed back in time with (most of) the jokes stripped out to make it an Eastwood Drama.
Review by Krautsalat ★★★½ 2

Action x52 2020: Film #23
An action film starring Clint Eastwood
Characters like you are an anachronism. You should be sealed in a case that reads "Break glass only in the event of war". Got no tolerance for you old timers who think that you know it better and can have it all your own way.
Apparently Clint was already too old for this shit 34 years ago, so what is he now?
Review by Jak-Luke Sharp ★★★★ 1

Warner Bros. Blu-Ray
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Monochrome & Color (Technicolor)
35mm
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"Just because we're holding hands doesn't mean we'll be taking warm showers together until the wee hours of the morning"
Eastwood is a powerhouse. His character and screen presence is both engaging and hilarious with an added tough guy image that feels believable but always underlined with a comedic edge, presumably due to a fantastic script. Supporting cast is a little poor aside from McGill, most are uninteresting and in Van Peebles case borderline annoying. The film falls a little flat in its final act, changing tone and atmosphere. Wanting to become an action film when it was perfectly fine as it was.
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Review by Oneepiexe ★★★ 1

In HEARTBREAK RIDGE schlüpft Clint Eastwood in die Rolle eines Kriegsveterans namens Tom "Gunny" Highway, der kurz vor seiner Pensionierung nochmal ein paar sehr eigenwillige Rekruten ausbilden soll, was einfacher klingt, als es ist. Dabei macht Eastwood als strenger Befehlshaber mit weichem Kern eine gewohnt gute Figur, währenddessen alle anderen Darsteller aber nicht genug Zeit kriegen, um zeigen zu können, was in ihnen steckt. Darüber hinaus versucht der Film auch ein wilder Mix aus dem Kriegs-, Comedy-, Action- und Drama-Genre zu sein, was aber einfach nicht zusammen passen möchte. Zu Beginn möchte HEARTBREAK RIDGE zeigen, wie schrecklich Krieg ist, dann muss Eastwoods Figur mit seinen ehemaligen Flammen klarkommen, worauf eine spaßige Komödie folgt, was dann mit einer actiongeladenen Schlacht abgerundet…
Review by Patrick Lohmeier ★★★ 3

Irgendwo zwischen AMERICAN NINJA, ROAD HOUSE und DEADLY PREY liegt HEARTBREAK RIDGE und tut so, als sei die ordinäre Mär von Army-Ausbilder Gunny (Eastwood) große Kunst. Mit Erfolg. Wenn man willens ist, zu akzeptieren, dass der 56-jährige Star des Films muskulösen Twens wie Mario Van Peebles oder Pete Koch körperlich überlegen ist. Ach ja, und Moses Gunn ist grandios. Zu schade, dass seine Kinokarriere Mitte der 80er Jahre schon so gut wie vorbei war.

Recent reviews

Review by Javi ★★★★★

"Soy el sargento de artillería Highway. He bebido más cerveza, he meado más sangre, he echado más polvos y he chafado más huevos que todos vosotros juntos, capullos".
Me va a doler muchísimo cuando se vaya este hombre de nuestro mundo.
Review by stevekuhn3

A bit goofy I thought. Clint looks dope though.
Review by Sed. Dine ★★★½

An easygoing, underrated and so quotable military gem from Clint Eastwood...
"Grenada... five minutes of firefight five weeks of surfing!"
That was from Major Grant (John Amos) in "Die Hard 2" (yeah that scene right before he slit that poor kid's throat) but I could have quoted Adam Sandler in "Anger Management": "Wasn't that like 12 hours long ?" Regardless, I'm only using these quotes to make a point about Grenada not being the highest one in the US military history. Still better than Nam, I guess. But if not being better than many Vietnam war classic, "Heartbreak Ridge" got the right war to display in its climactic sequence, but paraphrasing Major Grant, the film felt like ninety minutes of…
Review by Muddguts ★★★

A fairly solid military dramedy that has some ups and downs and garners some satisfaction here and there. It’s not one of my favourite Eastwood films and part of that can be blamed on a few of the characters and the unrealistic combat scenes.
Mario Van Peebles as a hip hop Jimi Hendrix was incredibly cheesy and would have been in 1986 and Highway’s ex-wife was too much of a bitter sourpuss to take a liking too. The combat was a little underwhelming. You had a dozen marines up against a couple pockets of enemies.
It has been at least 25 years since I watched it last and I am confident that this was my last watch. I don’t see myself wanting to sit down with it again when I am 74 😆
Review by I’m The only Juan ★★★½ 2

Never expected to say Clint Eastwood directed a pretty funny war film but here we are, believe me I’m just as surprised as you are.
Review by DaveD ★★★

So Filme wie Full Metal Jacket und das dreckige Dutzend nehmen mich eigentlich komplett mit.
Dieser Film irgendwie nicht wirklich.
Speziell das dreckige Dutzend ist eigentlich genau der gleiche Film nur besser.
Eastwood inszeniert sich mal wieder selbst als der heftigste. Des fande ich schon in anderen Filmen wirklich gut, aber in dem Film war es teilweise nervig.
Kann man auslassen.
Review by themightyoat ★

A lazy Full Metal Jacket. Bad in every conceivable way. I imagine Eastwood watching Kubrick's film and thinking "Oh shit. So, that's how you do it. I should step up my game." Soon after he made the magnifecent Unforgiven.
Review by sacrifyx ★★★

What if they made a Beetle Bailey movie and cast R. Lee Ermey as Sarge?
Chronologically the first Eastwood picture where he definitively plays "the old guy" and he invents a whole new growl for it. This entire thing is just scaffolding for the incredible insults the script has him say. At least before its latent politics become more uh fully realized in the last act. Best shit is Eastwood pathetically trying to rekindle things with one of his exes. "Did we mutually nourish each other?" he asks. It's the only part of this that feels anywhere close to redeemable.
What if they made a Beetle Bailey movie and then at the end they all invade Grenada?
Review by Cristiano Nunes ★★★

O sargento da Marinha Thomas Highway (Clint Eastwood) é um veterano condecorado de duas guerras, que foi designado para treinar um grupo de recrutas indisciplinados.
Interessante notar nos anos 80 que as pessoas imaginavam que os jovens estavam precisando de ordem e disciplina comum a gerações anteriores.
Na verdade, o sargento conquista todos os seus recrutas não pelo temor ou pela forte disciplina, mas sim pelo acolhimento e confiança.
Review by Unai Aizpurua ★★★★

Pena de la parte final que es un poco bajonera. Pero toda la instrucción es una maravilla!
Review by Josh Kitchen ★★★

This movie is just non-stop roasting.
“If I was half as ugly as you, sergeant major, I’d be a poster boy for a prophylactic.”

“The only thing you could build is a good case of hemorrhoids.”

“Maybe some communist bastard is gonna make an appointment to pop you a new asshole in your forehead.”
Review by Vince Abbate ★★★½

B-