Ladies & Gents, It's THE Brian De Palma!

Rating: 8/10 (2 November 2009)

I've said it before and I will keep sayin' it. Brian De Palma is my favorite director, with all do respect to Trantino and Kubrick, I like the latter two guys but De Palma is by far the Master. Have you seen Scarface, Untouchables, The Black Dhalia, Dressed to kill, Carrie, and Sisters? Of course you did! De Palma is the director of variety. De Palma directed movies like untouchables and scarface but also romance and horror, and Nam movies like Casualties of war. Tarantino and Kubrick had a certain line they walked through but didn't diversify! N e how, Casualties of war is a Nam movie that storms your thoughts and stirs your fears of how cruel, unethical, and chaotic wars can get to be. The casualties of the war were many in the movie hence the (/s). The girl who was beastly raped was not the only casualty in the movie. Humanity is the first casualty and then comes the people in war who disagree of what's going on but can't really take a real stand. If you think about it, I am sure that in Iraq today the same scene is taking place and almost anywhere there is war! It scares me a lot the idea that many people are defendless, helpless and become victims for no viable reason in wars! I just want to take all my hats off to De Palma and being a girl it felt like my nails pinched holes in my palms because I was so aggravated by the rape scenes.
Sean Penn, you can tell, is a very good actor from this movie and too bad it took him long to climb up until recently he reached.
Michael J. Fox, I loved him ever since he played Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties and he is just so good!
If you are a nam movies fan, Brian De Palma fan, and good movies fan, then this one is definitely for YOU.