**SPOILER ALERT** Almost unknown little action movie that's some twenty years ahead of its time in showing the public how prisoners are treated in an enemy or allied POW camp.
In conditioning a group US servicemen and one woman to the rigors of prison life their not only tortured and humiliated by their captors but water-boarded and driven almost insane with ear-splitting sounds and music to deprive them of their sleep. These are the very same tactics we read about and see in both todays newspapers and on TV. Tactics that are being imposed on enemy combatants in both Gitmo-Guantanamo-and Abu Ghraib prison by the US military and CIA.
The group of US Military volunteers going under this inhuman and degrading treatment by Cpt. Becker, Anthony Zerbe, didn't know just what they were in for. It's that the Captain was not only an egomaniac but a psychotic as well. Brutally breaking down the helpless prisoners Becker found the only woman among them Lt. Casey, Lisa Eichhorn, a real challenge for him. In that Casey was by far the toughest of the bunch of POW he was in charge of.
After failing in everything he and his men could do to brake the plucky young womens will Capt. Becker came up with this "brilliant" idea of having Lt. Casey raped like in a real held by the enemy prisoner scenario with him of course doing the raping! When this got out to those fellow POW's who were imprisoned with Lt. Casey it lead to a prison uprising that sent Capt. Backer and his tin pot dictatorship, or Becker's World as he liked to call it, blowing up in his, and his fellow goons, face!
The passive prisoners lead by Major Logan, Tom Skerritt, took control of the prison, or Camp Becker, as Becker's men were out in the jungle looking for Major Logan. It was Major Logan who escaped and killed one of Becker's goons, Tuang played by George Chenug, earlier in the film.
Lt. Casey who despite all she went through by being raped beaten and humiliated by Becker and his men refused to break under the pressure. Left for days standing up in a "tiger cage" Lt. Casey, reused by Logan, still refused preferential treatment and went out in the unfriendly jungle to take on Becker and his men. Casey did this literally, she almost lost her right arm from a blast from a M-16, singlehandedly!
Besides the usual blood & Guts action scenes, that happened in the last fifteen minutes of the movie, it was without a doubt Lsia Eichhorn's portrayal of the gusty Lt. Casey that made the movie "Opposing Force" worth watching. Lt. Casey's courage wasn't in her, at the end of the film, Rambo-style ability to take on and defeat Capt. Becker and his men at their own game. It was her courage and determination to take everything Becker & Co. could dish out at her and refuse to break under it and still end up being he last man or in Lt. Casey's case woman standing!
In conditioning a group US servicemen and one woman to the rigors of prison life their not only tortured and humiliated by their captors but water-boarded and driven almost insane with ear-splitting sounds and music to deprive them of their sleep. These are the very same tactics we read about and see in both todays newspapers and on TV. Tactics that are being imposed on enemy combatants in both Gitmo-Guantanamo-and Abu Ghraib prison by the US military and CIA.
The group of US Military volunteers going under this inhuman and degrading treatment by Cpt. Becker, Anthony Zerbe, didn't know just what they were in for. It's that the Captain was not only an egomaniac but a psychotic as well. Brutally breaking down the helpless prisoners Becker found the only woman among them Lt. Casey, Lisa Eichhorn, a real challenge for him. In that Casey was by far the toughest of the bunch of POW he was in charge of.
After failing in everything he and his men could do to brake the plucky young womens will Capt. Becker came up with this "brilliant" idea of having Lt. Casey raped like in a real held by the enemy prisoner scenario with him of course doing the raping! When this got out to those fellow POW's who were imprisoned with Lt. Casey it lead to a prison uprising that sent Capt. Backer and his tin pot dictatorship, or Becker's World as he liked to call it, blowing up in his, and his fellow goons, face!
The passive prisoners lead by Major Logan, Tom Skerritt, took control of the prison, or Camp Becker, as Becker's men were out in the jungle looking for Major Logan. It was Major Logan who escaped and killed one of Becker's goons, Tuang played by George Chenug, earlier in the film.
Lt. Casey who despite all she went through by being raped beaten and humiliated by Becker and his men refused to break under the pressure. Left for days standing up in a "tiger cage" Lt. Casey, reused by Logan, still refused preferential treatment and went out in the unfriendly jungle to take on Becker and his men. Casey did this literally, she almost lost her right arm from a blast from a M-16, singlehandedly!
Besides the usual blood & Guts action scenes, that happened in the last fifteen minutes of the movie, it was without a doubt Lsia Eichhorn's portrayal of the gusty Lt. Casey that made the movie "Opposing Force" worth watching. Lt. Casey's courage wasn't in her, at the end of the film, Rambo-style ability to take on and defeat Capt. Becker and his men at their own game. It was her courage and determination to take everything Becker & Co. could dish out at her and refuse to break under it and still end up being he last man or in Lt. Casey's case woman standing!