oppose force [ 1986 ] wasn not as good a dr. strangelove and it wasn not as good a the bridge on the river kwai . heck and it wasn not even as good a g. i. jane and which be pretty sad . the film revolve around a basic ethical problem represent in a simulated prisoner of war situation and how far can you go before you start break the law . what exactly be the law in such a situation . how can you simulate the torture of someone without actually torture someone . can you intentionally inflict pain . how about break bone . mock execution . sexual abuse . severe blood loss . real gun with bullet . death . somewhere between these be a really fuzzy line divide acceptable from atrocious . now and what could you do if you find yourself in such a training program and the line between simulation and reality begin to vanish . what could you do . this movie attempt to portray this dilemma . i find it interest to see the type of tactic use in resistance training . i have a brother who go through the usaf pow training program . accord to him and it be pretty close to the mark technically . the film have a fairly good premise and but it doesn not have a particularly good story . i wonder if it might be base on some actual event and but it become pretty apparent that it wasn not when the explosion start . they must have change scriptwriter three quarter into the film and because it take a real extreme turn and devolve into a somewhat pointless shoot em up with lot of distract explosion . i find it to have a rather unsatisfying end while again and kind of pointless . i be leave wonder what the point of the whole thing be i be begin to suspect there simply wasn not one . it could have be much well with just a little more story to go along with the firework .