Excellent and much underrated

Rating: 10/10 (23 February 2015)

Casualties of War is a film I chanced upon whilst flicking channels one day. As a result I had no expectations as to what the film would offer. I remember being slightly surprised to see a young Michael J Fox playing a soldier and I think it was this point that kept me watching.
Fox plays a good at heart man who finds out what war really entails and how it can affects different people in different ways, often for the worse. His young squad capture a local girl and things turn ugly. It is at times brutal but always compelling. It features a great young cast headed by Fox and an impressive Sean Penn.
I am surprised that this currently has a rating of just 7.0 as for me it is one of the better war films of recent decades. It is always engrossing and has the guts to tackle difficult subject matters in a no holds barred way.
A very memorable film and one of my favourite war films.