5 - for good sound

Rating: 5/10 (6 November 2002)

This film deserved its oscar for sound. The sound effects are great. Also they are useful as a nice deep mortar explosion from time to time will jerk you awake as you doze off from the lack of story/plot or any sympathy for the characters. There is a little message at the end of the movie which says that 19 American soldiers and 1000(!) Africans were killed at the end of this botched-up military operation. Until I saw that message, the impression I got from the film were the numbers are reversed. Well maybe I fell asleep for so long during the movie, that I saw only Americans getting killed. After, Gladiator....this?? The horror...the horror....