Refreshing

Rating: 8/10 (21 April 2002)

The film has been criticized as over-patriotic, which I was happy to notice (I am really allergic to those films), it was not. Any country would react if UN-soldiers were harassed. Scott told a story and succeeded to make it live. He managed to capture how the situation must've felt in the US soldiers eyes. Also: the music was very well chosen to give structure to the movie. I've read interviews where the locals complained that they were made appear as the bad guys. In my opinion, a war movie has to be made from someone's point of view, and I do not see how the locals could've been made look "better". This was a film worth seeing.