It stars Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna (parodying his Colonel role in the Rambo franchise), Brenda Bakke, Miguel Ferrer, Rowan Atkinson, and Jerry Haleva.

Sheen, who portrays a spoof of John Rambo, went through a tough weight lifting/training program to gain the physique needed to play the role of an action hero.

This failed operation turns out to be the latest in a series of rescue attempts which were foiled by the Iraqis, and consequently the advisors of President Benson suspect a mole in their own ranks.

Colonel Denton Walters suggests that they recruit war hero Topper Harley for the next mission, but he has retired from the Navy and become a reclusive Buddhist in a small Thai village.

Topper initially refuses, but when yet another rescue mission (this one, in turn, led by Walters) fails, he agrees to lead a small group of soldiers into Ba'athist Iraq.

The squad heads back to the army helicopter, where Ramada, after an intense revelation involving unfounded jealousy, reveals and arrests Michelle as the saboteur who ruined the previous rescue attempts to assist the Iraqis.

President Benson joins the escapees, and the evacuation team lifts off; Saddam is about to shoot them down when Topper and Ramada get rid of extra weight by pushing a piano out the open door, which crushes him.

[3] Roger Ebert noted that the film references such movies as Rambo III, Lady and the Tramp, and Apocalypse Now, as well as the fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

[6] Martin and Charlie briefly encounter each other in a scene in the main movie, parodying Apocalypse Now and Platoon, where they pass each other in PBR vessels along a river, and shout across to each other, "I loved you in Wall Street!