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55 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 4 out of 14
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    88
    A strong, gritty, powerful piece of film making, and one of the three or four best movies made about the Vietnam era.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    83
    An affecting, old fashioned, antiwar war story.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    Consistently fresh, engrossing and unpredictable.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Emanuel Levy
    80
    A tautly focused, well-executed drama. Demonstrates that it's still possible to make small, intimate and personal movies within the Hollywood studio system.
  5. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    77
    The entire ensemble is first-rate.
  6. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    75
    Rarely less than compelling, must-see entertainment, thanks to Farrell, Schumacher and company.
  7. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    75
    Worth a look. It's easy to overrate -- but just as easy to undervalue.
  8. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    70
    The stripped-down production give a disturbing sense of immediacy to an otherwise fairly conventional story about boys being prepared for war.
  9. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    50
    Beneath the rough vérité exterior beats the same slick, corny heart.
  10. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Dennis Lim
    40
    In his first major role, the Irish actor Farrell deflects the script's more dubious aspects through sheer magnetic presence.
  11. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    30
    Despite melodramatic lapses -- the gripping action recalls Walter Hill's 1981 "Southern Comfort" -- this is Schumacher's most ambitions film since "Falling Down" in 1993, and it plays to his strengths with young actors.
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  12. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Jared Rapfogel
    30
    A terrible, tired piece of filmmaking.
  13. TNT RoughCut
    Reviewed by: Susannah Breslin
    25
    Lacks just about everything on every level.
  14. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    20
    Schumacher has gone into the cinematic heart of darkness and emerged with his own peculiar kink on the war movie: Vietnam beefcake.
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