Buffalo Soldiers Reviews
Top CriticLike its bored soldiers, this movie seems to play with volatile substances with not nearly enough respect for their meaning.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
L.A. Weekly
For reasons that never become apparent, Jordan elects to play the growing mayhem straight, and the movie drags its toneless, spiritless way to the edifying conclusion that there is 'no peace anywhere.' How true. How banal.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Clever without being funny, Buffalo Soldiers would like to be cynical and nasty, but its satire is blunted by a soft, chewy center.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Slant Magazine
Buffalo Soldiers should have been left out on the range.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
EricDSnider.com
Begins as a cynically funny dark comedy but soon falls victim to a glut of subplots and unfocused writing.
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| Original Score: C+
Because the movie doesn't have any real politics -- just a few funny gags and sarcasm -- the satire never jells.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Has many fine performances ... yet the movie fails to give meaning to their actions, or to evoke sympathy for their anti-hero attitudes.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
Buffalo Soldiers takes place only 14 years ago, but its world seems more ancient than From Here to Eternity.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
SPLICEDWire
...the movie's derision lacks the focus and conviction a good socio-political military lampooning needs to make its point clear.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The storyline becomes too idiotic and lacking enough funny or relevant moments to fly as a cutting edge satire.
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| Original Score: C
Film-Forward.com
This blazingly irreverent comedy hits its machismo targets over and over again to the point of overkill.
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| Original Score: 2.25/5
The picture is sloppy when it should be incisive, indulgent when it should be astringent, and ultimately unsure of what it is mocking and in what spirit.
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| Original Score: 2/5
In the end, it's not the darkness of the film's politics that bothers me, it's the exploitation of violence as entertainment -- and, oh, the smugness of it all.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Its woozy, scattershot approach is a mishmash of bad throwaway gags, military clichés and dopey dope jokes.
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| Original Score: D
It's mostly a lurching, clumsy affair, a very poor man's Catch-22.
| Original Score: D
Cinema Signals
If there's a grain of accuracy in this so-called honest portrait of life and commerce on an American military base, we're in grave trouble.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Old School Reviews
a landscape that's been covered before with much more subtlety and humor, but the individual actors deliver the goods
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| Original Score: C
Philadelphia Weekly
...plays like late-'90s overly entitled nihilism...Jordan doesn't seem to understand that satire stems from outrage, not smug self-satisfaction.
