My quick rating - 4,6/10. I think I saw parts of this on TV when I was a kid called Combat Corps. IMDB has that as an alternate name so I am sure it was this. The music in this is so painfully out of place it is amusing. I have no idea what they were trying to tell us in 1971. All the soldiers in the US military coming back from Vietnam are scumbags? All we see here are a group of soldiers that basically act like frat boys with guns. The first woman they see is an instant target for rape. The first people that argue with them get shot, even though they actually deserved it. I have to assume I just watched an edited version since the IMDB comments say "brutal" and "violent". None of which I saw, not even really suggested. The overall idea may have been borrowed down the road since there is a bit of the "hunt for sport" thrown in here when the two hippie hitchhikers are split up. Also, the fight to the death to get the woman as a prize thrown in which that idea gets scrapped momentarily after it is injected. Just a run-of-the-mill exploration flick that was missing all the stuff that made that genre. I would like to point out that if a grenade exploded the second you pulled the pin out, it would be extremely ineffective to use LOL. Apparently, the makers of this movie didn't take that fact into account since using a tripwire attached to one wouldn't do much especially not what it does in this flick. Of course, this has a Bluray release but Last Boyscout or The One do NOT. Click the poster below if interested. You would have to be a huge fan of these flix to want to. I still can't get over the music in this one. For the time period, the only answer is the right one, they were HIGH.
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