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- Year
- 1991
- Runtime
- 111 min.
- Director
- Daniel Petrie Jr.
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Rating *
- 6.5
- Votes *
- 15,446
- Checks
- 1,350
- Favs
- 34
- Dislikes
- 17
- Favs/checks
- 2.5% (1:40)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
Samwise Gamgee and Wesley Crusher take on the cartels! Die Hard in a prep school, Toy Soldiers is a movie that couldn't possibly be made today. It has gun violence in a school, which can't be played off as light action fare now, and there's also something uninspiring about making the leads privileged rich kids who act like rebellious youth from the streets. That said, I thought it worked better than I expected. Though it's clearly doing Die Hard, the kids aren't superhuman even in a "vulnerable" John McClane way, and their capacity to cause trouble for the cartel terrorists holding them hostage is well foregrounded, and then have surprisingly realistic consequences (for the genre anyway). The main kids aren't all differentiated as much as I would like, and the main villain isn't as insane in the body of the film as he is in the prologue, but Lou Gossett Jr. is likeable as ever as their equally heroic dean. 2 years 7 months ago -
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