Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

lancekoz55-1 This film starts with clues that it is to be a comedy....a light piano score that seems to indicate irony, closeups of Grammar's dryly funny testimony done with rosy light and all the settings a bit overly prettified. But yet, nothing particularly funny is happening. When Burton first reports to Partridge, his new high-level boss, there is a quick-moving monologue about the state of the recent projects from Grammar, and the whole thing seems to teeter on a joke about to happen, i.e. a contrasting quip from Burton, or a blow up by Grammar's character, but it never does. A little farther in, the film slows based on rather pedantic details, and everything discussed is deadly serious, including the plight of whistle-blowers in the military industrial complex. It was all interesting and viable enough to keep me watching, but I found myself wishing I was watching a documentary if this is a true story, OR a more serious docu-drama like the recent telling of the tobacco industry (The Insider), OR a quicker moving, slightly more absurd comedy with satiric bite (which is how the film looks, art-direction wise). That's a wide range of tone that would make it more enjoyable, but somehow the writing and look of this tip-toes between all of that and never commits to any of it.This is not to say it isn't interesting, but it does mean that a potential for a more important or entertaining movie was missed. The material is smart enough and thorough enough, it hurts to see this pootential wasted by a near-miss.

koolduck23 i first saw this movie well before coming into the military, and while i found it very entertaining, didn't fully appreciate it. having now been 3 years in, i can very much appreciate the humor of this fantastic satire. granted, there is a fair amount of hyperbole, and no, not everyone in the military is so very inept... but simply put, a few years working with military intellegence elevates my view of this film quite a bit.

Michael O'Keefe Members of the Pentagon brass takes a direct hit in this witty Richard Benjamin satire about the efforts of a whistle-blower(Cary Elwes) to test a defective Bradley troop transport/combat vehicle. Kelsey Grammer plays Major General Partridge a wordy, self serving horse's ass. Mocking humor. Supporting cast includes:John C. McGinley, Viola Davis, Tom Wright and director Benjamin plays Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger.

Richard Davis The ending scenes are Bill Murray hokey, but the movie is surprisingly compelling. I was vaguely familiar with the facts behind the story, but I intend to read Mr. Burton's book now. The part of Burton's assistant seemed to me to be well played. Grammer's portrayal fit my perception of a Pentagon general, but his aides come out as just caricatures.