Buffalo Soldiers
2001
**½
Director: Gregor Jordan
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Scott Glenn, Anna Paquin, Ed Harris, Michael Pena
An American soldier stationed in Germany in 1989 runs a black market (guns, drugs, you name it) in order to keep boredom away. This anarchistic and darkly comic story kicks off with an effective blend of laughs and shocks, but then the clichés roll in (the hero falls in love with the daughter of his nemesis) and the film becomes needlessly cruel at the expense of comedy.
