![]() ![]() The predictable rites of jailbird passage take place, as Charlie takes a beating but doesn't rat, plays basketball with the guys and slowly picks up their synchronized song-and-march routine. As the only white prisoner, he also has to contend with tough inmates Larry Fishburne, Michael Beach, John Toles-Bey, Blu Mankuma and Harry Stewart. Slouching into camp with an eight-ball tattoo on each hand and a serious bratitude problem, he soon makes an enemy of real-Dad Martin when he refuses to call him Sarge. Charlie Sheen (one of three Sheens in this film, including Ramon Estevez) gets 90 days in the stockade for beating on an MP. Grieving over the death of his father, Pvt. While you're at it, you might want to ignore the story in front of the curtain. Moviegoers, this film seems to be saying, please ignore the wimp behind the curtain. ![]() When he "struts menacingly" around the camp (picture a savage, gray-haired kitty in fatigues), the military rat-a-tat-tat drumming on the soundtrack becomes unintentional mockery. His voice dips with embarrassment when he barks out racist slurs. He can't hide the intrinsic geniality in his eyes. But Sheen has "nice guy" etched all over his not-ready-for-double-time face. In "Cadence," which also marks his directorial debut, he's a bigoted, prisoner-chewin' stockade sergeant who keeps his black inmates scared spotless.Īt least, that's the idea. Is anyone going to buy Martin Sheen as a mean leatherneck - especially if he doesn't? Children under 13 should be accompanied by a parent ![]()
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