Toy Soldiers (1991)

Excellent but underrated film

Captivating movie !

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It's a special boy that goes to St. Regis prep school. This one is for rich misfit kids who've been kicked out other prep schools like Groton or Exeter. But sometimes it's the rebels you need in a nasty situation.It doesn't get nastier when a of bunch terrorists take over this prep school headed by Headmaster Denholm Elliott and Dean of Boys Lou Gossett, Jr. The head of the group is Andrew Divoff who overacts the entire film. He's son of a Columbian drug lord who is now in US custody. Divoff's original target was the son of a federal judge whom he planned to kidnap and hold for ransom exchange. But when the Feds move him and he sees that the whole school is a bunch of privileged kids, he decides to hold them all for ransom for his dad.The hero of the hour turns out to be Sean Astin and his little crowd of special misfits. Turns out that Astin had a lot of the right stuff that no one but Gossett suspected he had.Toy Soldiers is a nice action oriented flick aimed at the young. Divoff is an especially nasty villain whom you want very badly to see get taken down. Mason Adams as the Assistant FBI director and R. Lee Ermey as the army guy in charge are the authority figures.More than the young will like this.

This movie is one of those Die Hard clones that I quite like. Other reviewers never really liked this movie, but I think that it is in fact a pretty enjoyable movie. It really has little in the way of themes, but there is a bit of action, and the shenanigans of the High School misfits are quite amusing, especially moving the principal's entire office outdoors.Toy Soldiers is about a drug lord whose father has been arrested by the US and taken into custody. So he sends his henchmen to a prep school where the judge's son attends is only to find out that he has been moved out earlier. This doesn't stop them from taking the school hostage and rigging it up to explode.The school is an exclusive prep school for kids who don't settle into other prep schools. I really didn't think there could really be such a school because the exclusive schools are simply that, exclusive, and it makes me wonder why anybody would go to the effort of making such a school like that.Anyway, this is in America and I must admit that I really don't know as much as I think I know. It is not really a problem that it is a prep school for misfits, but rather that the school is taken by terrorists and that these kids use all their wits and intelligence to get out of it. These are both smart and gutsy kids, and not only manage to outwit the terrorists, but the FBI as well.I personally think this is a pretty cool little movie, and something that I quite enjoy watching. It isn't as tight and well executed as Die Hard, but it is a clone so I wouldn't expect much more.

Picture this. Someone makes a film about the Columbine or Virginia tech massacre only the film is directed by the guy who did home alone (i know this isn't but bare with me) and stars Sean Astin off of Goonies!! picture the terrorists being overpowered by buckets of water on top of ajar doors and marbles and this is why you need to see the film. unfortunately it doesn't go all the way by actually having the skateboard lying on the floor for the evil Mexicans to trip on but its halfway there you have to give it above 7 for that but not a 9 because it didn't go crazy enough. Pity, its seemed like it would be comical cheesiness, well worth a cult status

I recently rented this movie as part of a nostalgic phase I'm going through. I was born in 1980, and so film from mid-80s to mid-90s has quite an important place in my growing up.This particular movie was one of my favourites, and so I was thrilled when it became available in the UK. It hasn't become worse with time, it is still a great fun film, with plenty of excitement in its own way. Sure, it pales in the shadow of bigger, larger budget films, but don't let that stop you enjoying this.Worth a rent, or even a purchase at the discount prices you'll find it for.