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Movie Reviews of Tank
Movie Review: Tank
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a good movie. Well worth buying. Made the way movies used to be made. We had seen this years ago and were really glad to be able to find it again.Movie Review: Tank
Summary: 5 Stars
An entertaining movie. You need to know a little about the U.S. Army to really understand this movie. Well worth the time to watch this movie.Movie Review: C. Thomas Howell!!! WOW!
Summary: 5 Stars
LOL. I loved this movie as a kid and had to have it in my collection. Still enjoy it after so many years!Movie Review: Don't yank the tail of a tank
Summary: 4 Stars
Sgt-Maj. Zack Carey (James Garner) is a 52-year-old veteran who's been in the Army almost 30 years and often seems as tough as nails, but he has a strong feel for justice and a deep attachment to his family--wife LaDonna (Shirley Jones) and 16-year-old son Billy (C. Thomas Howell), whose older brother Jonathan followed his dad into the service and was killed a couple of years earlier at 20. The Careys arrive at Fort Clemons, GA, for what they hope will be their last posting, bringing with them Zack's pride and joy, a fully operational WWII Sherman tank he spent 15 years restoring. Though his CO (Sandy Ward) tries to persuade him to stay in with the suggestion that he could well find himself "the next Sergeant-Major of the Army," Zack isn't biting: he has an offer in for a fishing boat and wants to settle down while he still has a few years to really relate to his one remaining son. Then, without really planning it, he runs afoul of tyrannical and corrupt Sheriff Cyrus Buelton (played with slimy elan by G. D. Spradlin) and his chief deputy, bullying Euclid Baker (James Cromwell), when he tries to stand up for a young prostitute named Sarah (Jennilee Harrison). Buelton in response frames Billy for drug trafficking, forces Zack to sell the newly-purchased boat and turn over the proceeds to him, and ships Billy off to the local prison farm anyway. Now Zack gets mad--and a man with a working tank is not someone you want mad at you, as Buelton and Euclid very quickly find out.
At first the movie is a bit slow getting started, as we watch Zack settling into his duties and learn by his actions what kind of man he is. But when he and his tank pay a visit to the sheriff's office, things start heating up. Sarah, knowing she can't stay in Clemonsville, hitches a ride, Billy is broken out of the camp, and the trio heads for the Tennessee state line while LaDonna goes to see the Governor of Tennessee. This is a story of how might may make right for a while, but finds its comeuppance in the end, of how ordinary folks (like Danny Nelson as Mr. Gant, who supplies the fugitives with gasoline, home-cooked food, and advice on a route, though he knows full well Buelton will seek revenge) reach their limit, and of how a father and a son come to understand each other. As the tank comes heartbreakingly close to its goal only to be stopped within sight of it--and a gang of motorcyclists creatively shows the way to rescue--you may feel like cheering.
Movie Review: "There is a Lone Ranger, and...he wears Army green."
Summary: 4 Stars
Contains spoilers
James Garner, Shirley Jones, and C. Thomas Howell headline this tale of a fight against corruption and the quest for justice. Sure, that sounds a little sappy, but that's that way it is.
Garner plays an Army division sargeant-major who has just been posted to his last assignment at a base in rural Georgia. When he goes to town one night for a beer he steps and roughs up a deputy sheriff who is slapping around a young woman that was forced into prostitution by the corrupt, local sheriff. This raises the ire of the sheriff, and when he can't lay his hands on the sargeant-major he does the next best thing...he frames the sargeant's teenaged son and imprisons him. But, the sheriff didn't count on the fact that the sargeant owns his own fully restored and operational WWII-ear Sherman tank.
Since it is clear that the entire legal system of the town and county is corrupt from top to bottom and there is no recourse for justice or true application of law, the sargeant has to take matters in his own hands, rescue his son from a county work farm, and make his way to the neighboring state of Tennessee where they are running to justice and a chance at a fair trial.
Garner plays an all-American good-guy role, and Shirley Jones is his tough, supportive wife. Howell is their teenaged son, the younger of two, but the older son was killed, presumably on active service in the Army. BTW - you will love the scene where Shirley Jones confronts the governor of the state of Tenn.
All in all this is a fun show with strong messages about the importance of honesty, integrity, family commitment, and love. Even so, there is too much gratuitous foul language (as you might find on any Army base) laced throughout the film for my taste. That's the only reason why I didn't award this film 5 stars.