And hilarity ensues.....
This film, and the others in this series, are fond memories for me from my childhood... which says a lot about the filmic tastes 15 year old boys than it does about the quality of these movies, but anyway.....
I recently re-watched the first three (I had to stop there because, even as a teenage action movie fan the fourth installment had me watching the counter on the video display waiting for the end) and while I still enjoyed them it was for, some, different reasons. Not least of which is the high, "Cheese Factor," but they weren't trying to make, "Schindler's List," here, just a decent, daft, B-Movie and some elements still stand up. Others however, don't. Aside from the infamous, "That's not Michael Dudikoff!!!!!" scene in the commanding officers office (which has been discussed a lot in these forums and which still stuns me to this day at how lazy that piece of editing is, I mean they could cut well before the guys turns and shambles out, glancing at the camera!) this one struck me for the first time when I re-watched it....
When Joe and Curtis land at the airport they get off the plane, look at the terminal and Joe takes a piece of paper out of his pocket, looks at it, looks at the terminal again, and then says something like, "Yup... This is the place!" Like the army gives you a post-it note with your orders on! And then you get on a flight that MIGHT or MIGHT NOT take you to the country you need to go to! Didn't they find out the flight's destination BEFORE they got on the plane?! Getting out of a cab in front of a building and doing that scene I can understand, but getting off a plane???!!! The best part is the airport doesn't even have a sign up saying where you are ANYWHERE! Begging the question, "How do they KNOW this is the right place?" Was the piece of paper Joe had a DRAWING of the airport? Hilarious stuff!