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Reaction to the film was generally positive.

Among reviews, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times, gave the film three stars and noted how the movie, " has as much energy and color as any action picture this year, and it contains truly amazing dialogue.

" Ebert also complimented director Eastwood mentioning how he " caresses the material as if he didn't know B movies have gone out of style.

" Paul Attanasio of the Washington Post solidly agreed saying, " Those with an endless appetite for this sort of tough-man-tender-chicken melodrama will enjoy watching Clint go up against these young punks and outrun, outshoot, outdrink and outpunch them, in the process lending an idea of what it means to be a.

Marine.

" Another Washington Post staff writer Rita Kempley, offered a different view commenting, " always fun to see misguided machismo properly channeled into service of God, country or the National Hockey League .– Isn't that the trouble with combat movies these days?

From Top Gun to First Blood to Clint Eastwood's entertaining action drama Heartbreak Ridge, the empty-foxhole syndrome makes for non-endings.

" The Variety staff at Variety Magazine, added to the encouraging reviews exclaiming, " Heartbreak Ridge offers another vintage Clint Eastwood performance.

There are enough mumbled half-liners in this contemporary war pic to satisfy those die-hards eager to see just how he portrays the consummate marine veteran.

" Vincent Canby of The New York Times expressed his satisfaction with the film too.

He mused, " As the gritty, raspy-voiced sergeant, Mr. Eastwood's performance is one of the richest he's ever given.

It's funny, laid-back, seemingly effortless, the sort that separates actors who are run-of-the-mill from those who have earned the right to be identified as stars.