Accurate Characterization

Rating: Null/10 (5 March 2003)

I was an air force intelligence analyst in Vietnam and I can testify that the film "Platoon" portrays the guys as we really were during the Vietnam conflict: confused, iconoclastic, and sarcastic. Now I am a civilian intelligence analyst on Fort Bragg with the Green Berets and the Rangers and I can testify that "Blackhawk Down" portrays today's combat troops the way they really are: well trained, alert, motivated, and physically fit. The vast majority of them are even so good looking that any given bunch of them looks like a Hollywood cattle call for central casting.