The second half is better than the first half.

A film of two halves.

The first half of the fiim focuses on the training of raw recruits and features shenanigans we have seen countless times before - think Stripes and Police Academy.

The persecution of the fat guy - a scenario we had already witnessed in Stripes and Police Academy ( "I could show a movie on your butt, fatso!"- Lt Harris, Police Academy) is here played out to maximum effect. The fat guy who freezes atop a climbing frame is the central plot here with Matthew Modine's character playing second fiddle to all of th... read the rest.