"Perfect for our post-war climate" went one of the phrases used by AIP Home Video to sell retailers on this poor combat-o-rama that came out on cassette in June 1991, following the allied victory in the Persian Gulf War. Keep that blurb in mind and THE FIRING LINE acquires a perverse irony
in its anything-for-a-firefight plot.
Captain Mark Hardin (Reb Brown) is a Pentagon "advisor" in an unnamed Latin American country, leading local troops against communist peasant guerrillas. Hardin helps capture a notorious rebel leader, but later learns that the US-backed soldiers executed the man without trial, then raped and
murdered his female companion. When Hardin prot...
Released:
1991
Rated:
NR
Length:
93 mins