Freshmen Recruits

By: buddhawannabe

Barresi doesn't get much attention as a director but he is competent; he doesn't exactly micro-manage things though, as for instance in putting up an Army recruitment poster (the famous one) in a Marine recruitment office. Nothing elegant, but the guys are masculine and "real," you can actually imagine them as soldiers, and the sex is hot. Starts out with the ever-dependable Paul Carrigan letting J.T. Sloan know that Carrigan can get Sloan the position he wants if Sloan will let Carrigan, uh, take the position that both of them seem to want. Then, after a hernia scare, Doc recommends a jock-strap which only stays on for a few seconds; finally Paul Morgan butches it up, rather unconvincingly, as a toppy sergeant--Will Clark, who also does some topping, would have been more convincing than Morgan in this role. Morgan redeems himself in the final scene, though. As a military themed flick this is a lot more satisfying than some on which a lot more production money was spent.