SUPERNATURALS

THE STORY: This movie is really bad. I don't mean good-bad, either. It sucked. But I may be biased. Most movies, especially cheap ones involving the military always get it wrong. This one got EVERYTHING wrong. Being a soldier, it really got under my skin. For Trekkers, Nichelle Nichols plays the 'tough' Sergeant Hawkins. (snicker) Oh, and LeVar Burton is in it too.

During the civil war union soldiers from the 44th whatever corps forced confederate soldiers to cross a minefield, including a little boy, Jeremy, who was in a confederate uniform. Now their ghosts haunt the area and desire vengeance on the hated 44th. In the present, (well, the 80's) the 44th is now a training corps led by Sgt. Hawkins.On a training mission they camp out in the area the tragedy occurred in and the ghosts of a mysterious woman and confederate soldiers come back to kill them all. The hero, Pvt. Ellis (a Brad Pitt lookalike) discovers that the woman's ghost is that of the little Jeremy's mother, and that the Jeremy, now an old man living in a cabin is somehow bringing the spirits back. He persuades the old man to stop the spirits, but only he, Pvt. Lejune and Sgt. Hawkins survive the night.

This movie bites.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?:

1.) Things may be different now, but when this flick was made female trainees and male trainees do not bivouac together! LeJune was the only female in the group...and another GI, Cord, tries to rape her.

2.) These guys bitch a lot for trainees. SGT Hawkins is hard on them, but no training NCO would put up with this much nonsense.

3.) Speaking of training, Hawkins is the only NCO on the trip! That's so [unwrite]ing crazy it belies all sense. Ok, for you civilians reading this...training platoons and companies never send a group out with only one Sergeant. Hell, what if they all went nuts? Would you go out in the woods with a group of people you've been screaming at and bossing around for weeks? When they're armed?

4.) THEY'RE ARMED? On a training mission they have live ammo? They also smoke and have alcohol.Yeah, right.

5.) One guy is telling the others how he read about a head transplant in a classified document. Yeah, trainees all get to read classified documents.

6.) The area they're in has underground bunkers from the civil war and when the mysterious woman shows up, Sgt. Hawkins doesn't react like she should. If this is a military training area, NO CIVILIANS should be anywhere near it. In the beginning of the movie two soldiers are staking out the area and the ghosts kill them. So obviously they never made it back but the army still sends trainees out there?

7.) After the bodies start piling up Sgt. Hawkins says she has the authority to investigate the deaths of people under her command. Okaaaay....think about that.

8.)While setting up camp the troops hear thunder and say it looks like rain but the SUN IS SHINING!

9.) They have no vehicles and one radio. No contact with their HQ. Yeah, right.

I give up. I have a list of things from this movie that basically, insult the intelligence of anyone who sees it. Trust me, it just sucks.

NUDITY AND SEX: None, and it wouldn't have helped.

HUH?: These recruits have a lot of hair. Trainee males NEVER have hair!

THE TALLY: This movie isn't worth cracking jokes on. the cheesey laugh factor is overrun by the stupid plot and bad acting. It really was hard to finish this one, like swallowing a tack.