One of THE Best!

Rating: 10/10 (4 June 2000)

This movie, being based on a true incident, is pure exellence! Michael J. Fox turns in the best performance (of perhaps his entire career)as well as Sean Penn. Penn's performance of Merserve, the unit leader, is as outstanding as Fox, seeing he's the exact opposite of Fox's character. It is this thing, opposites in our eyes, where in Penn's case you see the absolute worst in what can happen to a man in a war environment. Fox gives us some hope about mankind, and even that he's in a war , he's not anywhere near as crazy, mad or just downright evil as Penn is. Even in war, there are some rules of engagement. Fox's role as Eriksson gives us the full range of emotions that his character, and probably that of any other in his situation. He goes from scared (at the beginning, first time in Vietnam & all to astonishment of what he hears of what Penn plans to do in the 'ville.
At the very end, you feel the pain that Fox is going through, because there wasn't anything that he could do, short of killing his own men. Who ever likes Michael J. Fox, or Sean Penn HAS to see this!!