Highly overrated, in my opinion

Rating: 1/10 (26 December 2003)

I know a lot of people out there are going to want to lynch me and hang me out to dry when they read this, but I thought the film totally sucked. With few exceptions (like Full Metal Jacket and Platoon), I've never seen such a sick and vile degradation of the military. Besides, the movie is fiction. The characters were fiction. So anybody who thinks the movie is 'realistic' or 'reality,' should have his head examined. Coppola was probably never there; what would he know? Like most Vietnam War films, it's propaganda, not history. Not as nauseating or slanted as Platoon, but bad enough. Also, the film's length is ungodly and is one of the most slowly-paced and mind-numbingly boring films ever made. If you're suffering severe insomnia, then see the film. Otherwise, don't. Please, please, don't.