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- 1987
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
- 1987
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
Summary A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
Directed By: John Irvin
Written By: James Carabatsos
- 1987
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
- 1987
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
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Summary A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
Directed By: John Irvin
Written By: James Carabatsos
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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59% Positive
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6% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
64
59% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
35% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Most of the power of this scrupulously honest memorial isn't in the talk; it's in the terror and the foreignness - the far-from-home-ness - of the imagery. Directed by John Irvin, the film has great decency; it joins together terror and thoughtfulness.
Well-produced and directdd with an eye to documentary-like realism and authenticity, pic centers upon a military undertaking of familiar futility during the Vietnam War.
As a direct tribute to the dignity of the solider facing attacks on both their bodies and their souls it puts things in a salutary context.
There are a couple of rocky moments, but the large cast of unknowns go through hell convincingly, and illustrate the randomness of mortality.
Less pretentious than Platoon and more attentive to the Vietnamese than The Deer Hunter, this picture proposes with a great deal of skill and sincerity that we honor and respect the men who suffered on our behalf without even beginning to consider why they did so, or to what effect.
It waffles. In the end, it emerges a distinctly pro-soldier, possibly anti-war movie that supports America's overseas doctrine, whether it be right or wrong. One shudders to think what they might create if asked to portray the United States' current role in Central America. Their film certainly wouldn't dare make a statement, bother to educate or entertain. And most importantly, it wouldn't take sides. [29 Aug 1987, p.1D]
It don't mean nothin'. [28 Aug 1987]
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