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The movie goes to great lengths to have the young scientific geniuses exchange two Why, for example, establish that the kids can tap into a phone line, if later in the movie they don't use that skill to communi- cate to the US. troops surround- ing the school? The movie is so absent-minded that even the kid who's the ringleader forgets about the phone gimmick, and goes to great trouble to sneak out of the grounds through a forgot- ten drain pipe, in order to give information he could simply have phoned in. Since the plot of the movie is utterly predictable, we hope at least for some cleverness in the gimmicks. Here the movie is so disappointing that I wonder if the screenwriters were really trying. We can now safely predict, it we have been paying the slightest attention, that the drug baron's son will capture the school with a group of terrorists, and that they will successfully be outsmarted by the troublemaking kids, whose rebellious spirits now come in handy. We don't even need the scene establishing that the drug- lord is being tried by a judge whose son is one of the school ringleaders. The other shows a group of prep school students sneaking out of their rooms and into a secret basement ottheold school building to tap into phone lines and get drunk. The school trou. blemakers are caught by the dean, who disciplines them. The movie opens with two se- quences that inform us of exactly what we can expect One shows a Central American desperado kill. ing hostages in a desperate at- tempt to win the release of his father, a drug baron being brought to the United States for trial. structed out of characters, situations and gimmicks that will be instantly recognized by the weary viewer. There is nothing Toy Souiers, a film with ear. nest performances and protes. siona] graduation values, is con- __- ..._.., moeftts. Maybe that’s why so many movies seem to be tamilier before we‘ve even seen them - why the filmmakers seem to be conducting a drill rather than trying something new. Fine performances can’t §gy_e‘__utired Toy Soldiers ?ttr1t'1t 'Pl'). “New DANCES WITH WOLVES: Kavm Costner: masswe mum eptc winch scooped se- ven Academy Awards AA, at the Cam- bridge Twin and at the Waterloo. 6 p m shows nighity Sunday matinee at 2 p m AWAKENINGS: Serious work tor Roan Williams and Robert DeNIro star In Inns Mstxromtrtetruestrvy about a psychur ms! and a basket case Williams plays the mycmatn’sl PG. closes Thursday at the Fraden‘ck. late show only A KISS BEFORE DYING: Matt Dillon Ines In van to play the sexlly psychotic hunk m this remake of me! about every romantic thriller since 9% Weeks Sean Young Ianguishes with brown hmr and an annude as the love ttttemit/victim. Flam the creatcw of Fatal Attraction R, at the Fairway. Mo shows nightly and weekend mam-lees Roger Ebert is an American film critic. That given a budget and a cast, locations and shooting schedule, they had not justified their effort by even trying to make a film it is necessary to see? Or would that be asking too much? Did anyone connected with the production notice that they were making a movie that, in essence. had already been made? That there was no need for it? Clowns and Balloons "Make their days . $hannHhgat." Was there any way to make this material original? To find a new twist? Was there anything the filmmakers wanted to SAY about the situation - other than the crushingly obvious fact that trou. blemakers in peacetime often become heroes in war? Nor do they do anything even slightly surprising. The only inter. esting character is the bad guy (Andrew Divotf). and that's only because villains, in general, have the best rolés in movies. ies, and they invariably say what, ever we would all predict a person would say in each situation, in between Robert Folk's rum-dum- ma-dum military score. But do partsiiiGGiiiii'iiritten for these actors; their dialogue is gobbted t_ogether out of old mov- Toy Soldiers has some inter. esting people in the cast, includ. ing Lou Gossett as the dean, Denholm Elliott as the headmas. ter, and Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton and Keith Coogan as some of the students (R. Lee Ermey, the real-life drill sergeant recruited for Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, turns up as a military man). computer Chips - one in a bomb “WWW. the cm in a model airplane - so that when the terrorist pushes his panic button, the bombs don’t ”mode but the plane takes off. Predietatge, yes - but who could have guessed that key payoff moment would be handled so lamely that it seems like a pale antidimax? Gzrila Mg?,,,!) 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