A disservice to the men who fought the war.

Rating: 1/10 (6 January 2001)

This movie is a major slap in the face for the American soldiers who fought and died in Vietnam. Besides only halfheartedly following the book, the movie is barely laced with enough fact to make it believable. Ron Kovic was wounded on his SECOND TOUR in Vietnam. That means he volunteered to go back. Ron Kovic himself served his country well while he was in the Marines; he earned several medals and commendations for his bravery and loyalty (including the Bronze Star Medal for valor, Navy Commendation Medal, and Vietnam Cross of Gallantry), and I feel great pity for him for having endorsed a blatant anti-war propaganda movie like this. If you want to learn what Vietnam was really like, don't watch this movie or Stone's other fictitious Vietnam movie, "Platoon".