Breach of Conduct (1994)

I have to say... as an Army wife I found this movie entertaining. I also found it highly insulting. The story is certainly interesting... a colonel goes haywire and uses officers' wives to satisfy his needs. But unfortunately, this flick simply has NO basis in reality. There's no way a colonel would get away with what's depicted in this film. What's more, it really insults the professionalism of military officers and makes them look bad. It's not based in truth AT ALL.Watch this movie if you're interested in being entertained. But PLEASE don't assume that anything in this movie is based on truth. It's not. There's nothing at all about this movie that's truthful.

**SPOILERS** Not at all that bad of a movie, if you see just how ridiculously entertaining it is, that has to do with this maniac colonel in charge of a giant ammo dump, Camp Benton, in the middle of the Nevada Desert that even includes nuclear weapons. We already see at the start of the movie "Breach of Conduct" a young woman, obviously the wife on a soldier at the base, die form an overdose of barbiturate's. We don't really realize why she did herself in until a bit later where we see that the commanding officer of the army post Col. Andrew Case, Peter Coyote. Col.Case is an absolute madman with delusions of grandeur who thinks that he's God's gift not only to women but to the future and safety of the United States of America as well.Having transfered from Ft Bragg to Camp Benrton the Lutz's Lt. Ted Lutz and his pretty wife Helen, Tom Verica & Courtney Thorne-Smith, never realized what they were in for with the commander of the base Col. Case who turned their lives, mostly Helen, into a living hell. Being mad as a hatter and all full of himself Col. Case got to Helen right away laying down the law, his law, to her that he and only he's the law of the land, or of Camp Benton. This militaristic lunatic soon demands that Helen do whatever he, his highness Andrew Case the all powerful supreme and exalted leader, tells her to do or else!At first acting as if he just wants to be friendly Col. Case becomes almost unbearable towards Helen. Getting her husband Let.Ted Lutz transfered out of the base Col. Chase can now have his way with her without any interference from the outside world. Putting the screws on Helen by trying to get her to be his next military conquest, everything with this crazed lunatic has to do with war and military operations, Helen feels that the only way to survive this madman is to escape from the base. Helen is soon to find out it just isn't that easy with the colonel having the ammo dump under a total lock-up like a high security prison.Showing Helen his private pad, a reinforced steel and concrete bunker some 100 feet underground, that can withstand a direct hit from a thermonuclear explosion makes Helen finally realize that this guy is not only completely out of his head but a danger to her the men he commands and entire country. Now desperate in stopping this lunatic Helen tried to go through the proper channels to get him arrested and put away before he can cause any more damage that he already had. Col. Case running the entire camp as well as it's surrounding towns like a ruthless dictator has Helen instead of himself get arrested. Using a bogus medical report Col. Chase has Helen declared mentally unstable that lands her inside base hospital to be shot up with drugs and made into a mindless zombie that he could easily control.Helen escaping from the hospital and Col. Case's clutches with the help of the kindly and conscientious Cpl. Reed, Keith Amos, has the now totally nuts Col. Case go completely bananas. Running down Cpl. Reed with his command limousine killing him and then when Helen and her friend another army mans wife Paula (Beth Toussaint), whom Col. Case also physically and sexually abused, take over Chase's command bunker he orders a massive military assault! Chase's bizarre behavior shocked the soldiers under his command including the base doctor Dr. James ,Tom Mason, who the insane Col.Case beats to within an inch of his life for disobedience.With no one, after the soldiers under his command mutinied, on the base left for him to command the hysterical Col.Case now armed to the teeth, and like Rambo, goes it alone to put an end to this disobedience and attack on his supreme and God-given authority, by two housewives? To Col. Chase surprise he's soon to find out that he isn't exactly the super macho fighting man that he always envisioned himself to be.If you don't take this movie seriously you can really find it well worth watching as some kind of comedy about army or military life, like the TV shows Sgt. Bilko and F-Troop, which I feel that it was really intended to be but somehow along the way started to take itself seriously.

This movie was so far-fetched that it wasn't enjoyable. I saw it during a "guilty pleasure" afternoon on the couch in front of Lifetime Movie Network, so I was even in the mood for cheesy early-90's chick flicks, and this one was just abominably terrible. The entire premise was ridiculous, the things that happened, from start to finish, were ridiculous, the resolution was ridiculous. Stupid, stupid, movie.The acting wasn't terrible but it wasn't great--just forgettable. Do not waste your time unless you feel like being blown away by ridiculousness.I mean, I know sometimes movies require you suspend your disbelief, but this goes so far into unbelievable that it's not entertaining, it's just dumb.

A basic "Damsel in Distress" film, but with better direction, writing & performances than one would expect. The script is corny, but tight, & the entire film is involving, despite yourself. I think it's worth seeing, on a late night, when you just want to relax & have fun.