Lisa Eichhorn does some quite good work here, her emotional responses to the (SPOILER AHEAD) rape. Rape is always a tough thing for a movie to tackle, as the visceral horror is just too close for comfort. This scene, like most others I've seen, are a little hard to watch. However, I just never found her all that believable as an Air Force officer. Tom Skerritt was his usual journeyman, quality, believable work without flashiness. This one has a number of obvious plot holes, but then I guess there wouldn't be much to have a movie about otherwise. I found it somewhat timely now that we seem to regularly have women captured in wartime. I think we need to have a national dialogue on whether this is acceptable, rather than sweeping under the rug the fact that we ask young women to run the risk of sexual torture. I accept a fair amount of the original feminist agenda, but I think this goes too far. In my opinion, (oink, oink) women are just too important to waste in war. As to the movie, Grade: C-
Review of Opposing Force
