Misfired adaptation of Robert Stone's novel "Dog Soldiers" by the author with Judith Rascoe is convincingly unglamorous in appearance but has little entertainment value. Nick Nolte (with a big mop of hair) gives a mediocre performance as the somewhat-reluctant carrier for his drug-dealing Marine buddy in Vietnam-era Saigon; he'll get $1K up front plus another $1K from his friend's wife in San Francisco after he delivers two uncut kilograms of heroin--naturally, he's being followed by maybe/maybe not agents who want to make a deal. Nolte and pill-popping Tuesday Weld have a nicely scratchy rapport in their earliest scenes when she still doesn't know what's going down; in the second half, the stars are unable to carry the rambling script. As the thugs, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Masur and Ray Sharkey are a memorably weird trio, but Laurence Rosenthal's cheesy score (accented by Creedence Clearwater Revival songs, natch) is terrible. ** from ****
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