? Veteran Coast Guard
rescuer Kevin Costner takes a gig teaching new recruits, including cocky Ashton
Kutcher.
+ This is just like
all of those military films in which a young private faces off against tough
drill sergeant who seems to have it in for him. However, that these are Coast
Guard rescue swimmers being trained in unusual skills like holding their breath
and swimming in icy water gives the movie a novelty aspect that makes it more
interesting. Most interesting is an offhand comment about how other branches of
the military don’t respect the Coast Guard because they save lives rather than
take them.
- Other elements,
like the younger man’s obligatory romance and the older one’s foundering
marriage, still feel overfamiliar. The ending is needlessly protracted and
overly melodramatic.
= *** If you like
military films, you’ll like this one.
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