This means that once he’s out in the bush with his battle-hardened platoon, he turns into a chowderhead. Unfortunately, he lacks crucial field experience. Now, Jeff Knight is good-looking, brave, intelligent, honorable and overall the best human being one could imagine.
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Jeff Knight, an officer fresh out of West Point with his head all full of fancy book learnin’. Platoon Leader starts out letting you think it’s going to be the first type of Vietnam movie, when at its heart it wants to be the second.ĭudikoff plays Lt.
The latter wanted to refight the war and, this time, let America triumph. The former purported to depict the war as it really was, warts and all, and to ask whether or not our involvement there was worth the price.
So remember that wave of films about Vietnam during the mid to late 80’s? They pretty much came in two types: those like Platoon or Full Metal Jacket, and those like Rambo: First Blood Part II and Missing In Action. He even had a small part in TRON fer goodness sake as an unnamed conscript ! Kino Lorber has released two of Dudikoff’s action films, each centered on America’s involvement in Vietnam, as a double-feature blu-ray: Platoon Leader from 1988, and Soldier Boyz from 1995. How irrelevant do you have to be to not have been cast in any of the Expendables movies? On the other hand, he’s worked reliably up through the present day- mostly in direct-to-video fare, but he’s earned a devoted fan base. Alas, Dudikoff’s star never rose the way Chuck Norris’s did. I’ve not yet seen American Ninja, a martial arts action film from 1985 that the Cannon Film Group hoped would make its star, Michael Dudikoff, into a household name. Michael Dudikoff Headlines a Pair of Vietnam Wish-Fulfillment Fantasies in this Blu-Ray Double Feature.