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Once Dudikoff’s character snaps into reality and takes charge, however, the movie improves and becomes less about the platoon’s personal dramas. It’s admittedly rough going at the start – the platoon is primarily made up of one-dimensional war movie stereotypes, and once it’s established that school hadn’t fully prepared Knight for the horrors of ‘Nam, there is only so long that the movie needed to keep hammering in that point. The Cannon Group’s Platoon Leader was directed by Aaron Norris, little brother of the studio’s biggest star, Chuck Norris. This is the sort of steeliness that earns your platoon’s respect. Unwilling to follow his lead at first – the lieutenant hasn’t seen the same shit they have, see? – the men eventually come around when Knight survives a mine explosion and returns to the front to resume command. Platoon Leader: A lily-fresh West Point graduate, Lieutenant Jeff Knight is airlifted into one of Vietnam’s most dangerous zones and put in charge of a Bad News Bears-like platoon of grizzled insubordinates. Kino Lorber Studio Classics pulls Double Dudi on this Blu-ray set, packaging together two of Dudikoff’s Vietnam-adjacent action films onto one disc.
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By the ‘90s, though, his name was appearing less frequently on theater marquees than it was on direct-to-video releases. American Ninja and its first sequel made him into a legit, international star follow-ups such as the immensely entertaining Avenging Force and River of Death were further showcases for his talents as an actor and stuntman. Here we had an actor with Ryan Gosling’s good looks and arguably better acting skills, but unfortunately worse judgment when it came to selecting projects. It’s really not fair that Dudikoff isn’t universally revered as one the ‘80s biggest action stars he came out of the same school of low-budget action filmmaking – the beloved, defunct Cannon Group – that turned Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme into movie stars, but for whatever reason isn’t held in the same light. If there were justice in this world, Michael Dudikoff would be an Expendable.