Best Defense (1984)

In 1982, somewhat incompetent engineer Dudley Moore is working on a targeting system to use for the United States Army tanks. Fast forward two years, Army lieutenant Eddie Murphy participates in a demonstration of the technology in Kuwait. A weird amalgam of a movie, it initially did not include Murphy at all. After the original tested poorly, his role was added even though he doesn’t interact with any of the other main cast members. There are probably many ways that that mixing could have worked and been a really funny movie. Though there are hints of its possible humor, this is not one of those ways which is a shame because it squandered a chance to bring together two great comedic actors at high points in their careers. Regardless, there is the small interesting bit of seeing the United States involvement in the Middle East much earlier than the first Gulf War.