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The WALT DISNEY CO. is set for maximum controversy when it releases a "warts-and-all" portrait of U.S. Army life with the fuss-film BUFFALO SOLDIERS.

The use of "Buffalo Soldiers" as the title is uncharacteristically un-PC for Hollywood. I find it hard to believe that it was picked at random, either. So it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

What kind of fool named the film "Buffalo Soldiers"?? I only know of the Buffalo Soldiers from the Bob Marley song (which by the way lifts its chorus from the TV Show The Banana Splits!). My point is, obviously the black soldiers in the 9th and 10th cavalry are having their name sulllied by this movie. You would think SOMEONE in Disney (the VP of Diversity??) would have waved the red flag on this idea as it was coming through production.

The movie is based on 1993 anti-military novel that was a big hit with the liberal elite. Here's what the liberals at the Sundance film festival think of this movie:

Gregor Jordan (Two Hands) returns to Sundance with Buffalo Soldiers, a high-pitched romp that teeters between drama and farce, delivering a welcome antidote to the onslaught of recent glorifications of all things military.

It is 1989 on an American base in Germany, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Special fourth class soldier Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) and his gang of GI accomplices are heavy into a regular regime of pilfering supplies, haggling on the local black market and keeping a thriving drug business by cooking up drugs right under the base commander's (Ed Harris) nose. When they accidentally stumble onto two truckloads of highly sophisticated weaponry worth millions, the opportunity is too good to pass up. The only fly in the ointment is the new top sergeant (Scott Glenn), who takes one look at the flashy Rolex a soldier sports and decides to kick butt. Elwood, in return, takes one look at the sergeant's hot daughter and decides to fight back.

Jordan has crafted a brilliant piece of subversion with clever, robust characterizations that are nailed by the distinguished cast. Phoenix and Glenn are wildly entertaining as adversaries, but it is Harris who turns in an amazing performance that epitomizes military ineptitude and career torpor.