Actors are trying, but the director and writer appear to be going through the motions. Clichéd dialogue / story lines, and amped up dramatic background music (turn volume to 11!) do not a good movie make.
People in this movie look overly self-conscious that they ARE in a movie, even background people (eyes shift nervously everywhere, BUT toward the camera, which made this viewer conscious that they were trying oh so hard to not look at the camera! very distracting!).
Cliché, cliché, cliché... like being forced to watch Iron Eagle.. yuck.
way too much like An Officer and a Gentleman in Pennsylvania!
probably why this guy never directed another major movie after this and Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)...
He and/or his bosses must have realized he was out of his element.
People in this movie look overly self-conscious that they ARE in a movie, even background people (eyes shift nervously everywhere, BUT toward the camera, which made this viewer conscious that they were trying oh so hard to not look at the camera! very distracting!).
Cliché, cliché, cliché... like being forced to watch Iron Eagle.. yuck.
way too much like An Officer and a Gentleman in Pennsylvania!
probably why this guy never directed another major movie after this and Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)...
He and/or his bosses must have realized he was out of his element.