I know most people thought it was just silly, but I thought it was done really well. The characters were all well drawn, and their reactions to the “extreme circumstances” were true.  I don’t buy-in to the whole right-wing violent fantasy aspect of this, but if you think about the climate in which it was made (the cold war), it was a good reflection of that time. And it’s got Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in about as different a movie from Dirty Dancing as you could imagine.