Customer Reviews
Black Comedy - By: Brendan O. Clarke, 21 Jul 2008 
Director Gregor Jordan (director of the rubbish movie Ned Kelly) presents us with a world of the Buffalo Soldiers wherein men are fired up for combat, but resort to power games amongst themselves that become violent. Not just beatings, but resorting to murder as well. These are bad men doing bad things. They are so wrapped up in their own obsessions with domination that they don't even know if they're in East Germany or West Germany. The humour is edgy, as with the soldier who died at the start during the indoor footballl game, found filled with drugs - including a birth control pill he took by mistake. Buffalo Soldiers skillfully shows that the peace can be just as crazy as the war. The ost music by David Holmes is everybit as good as anything he composed for the Oceans 11 or Oceans 12 movies.
7/10. Bee Clakre.
[THIS SPACE FOR RENT] - By: Franklin T Marmoset, 26 May 2007 Here's a story about some buffalo soldiers who are not, as far as I could tell, also dreadlock rastas. Instead, this one is about a bunch of army types larking about & making a mess of things during those times when there's no actual fighting to be done. Mostly, this centres around Joaquin Pheonix as Elwood, a guy who steals & sells whatever he can get his hands on, so he's a bit like Milo Minderbinder but without the chocolate covered cotton.
I liked this one, but I would have preferred a more even tone. It starts out well, & the first half hour or so is a very funny little black comedy about the awful things soldiers do when they're bored, but it becomes more serious as Ellwood gets in over his head with some criminals & has to deal with a new commanding officer who is bent on shutting down Ellwood's operation. It's still good, but I missed the laughs when they were gone.
My memory of the book on which this is based is pretty vague, but this big screen adaptation seemed very different. Mind you, I didn't like the book much, so this is a definite improvement. Buffalo Soldiers offers a decent insight into the inevitable inward collapse an army faces when it has no wartime duties to perform, & even if it could have done with some more humour in the latter half, I liked this enough to recommend it.
Jet black humour - By: Mr. Warren M. Fisher, 19 Apr 2006 A satire of the blackest hue featuring a raft of great performances, most notably Ed Harris, hilarious as a henpecked, incompetent officer. Not to be taken too seriously as a portrait of the US army (think Bilko on acid), but nonetheless hilarious viewing.
Brilliant!! - By: Mr. P. Noble, 03 Feb 2006 
Like I said brilliant. Dont know what the last 2 reviews were about. Tennis??. Sense of humour breakdown perhaps?. Great film, decide for yourself, but don't pass it by!
Very dull! - By: E. J. Carter, 01 Feb 2006 
I gave this film an hour before I had to turn it off, its unfunny & pointless. I wasted an hour of my life!
