Gung-ho Americana of the lowest kind as, to stirring music, prep school boys soften up the Colombian drug runners holding them hostage before the military arrive to mop up. These, one must add in fairness, are teenagers with behavioural problems, all from rich families, which accounts for the Colombians moving in to try to get their leader released in exchange for the boys' lives. There's some suspense along the way as the boys' rebel leader (Sean Astin) attempts various acts of escape and sabotage; by and large, though, it's like a TV movie (and not a good one) with bad language (lots of it) added, and it's a measure of the film's failure to appeal that your sympathies remain largely with the Colombians. Dean Lou Gossett takes a bullet through the heart but survives to wave cheerily to his boys: in flag-waving, rose-coloured Hollywood corners like this, some things never change.


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