"Charlie Don't Surf"

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2001)

Reagan just got elected, Jimmy Carter had to swollow that s___t eating grin of his, and the Vietnam Vets got their heads rubbed in that quagmire one more time. I think this was inevitable because as we all know history tends to repeat itself and fortunately at this time I wasn't draft bait and The End really wasn't the end. For Martin Sheen this was his best role and he did a fairly good job of it. The main umph of the picture is the music and the scenery. Brando is awesome and Duval is hard to imagine as a surfer groupy but the movie does capture the insanity of that war and the apocalypse of those times. Compared to todays standards the story is a bit far fetched.