Excellent script and acting add up to a Must-See War Classic!

Rating: Null/10 (2 January 2005)

CASUALTIES OF WAR (4 outta 5 stars) Excellent character drama that takes place during the Vietnam war. Michael J Fox plays the conscientious newbie who is placed under the command of the slightly psycho Sgt. Meserve (Sean Penn). After he and his men are denied an R and R trip into town Meserve decides that on their next mission he and his squad will kidnap a Vietnamese girl (on the pretext that she is a Viet Cong spy) and have their way with her. Michael J wants no part of this... but the sergeant is ordering him to take his turn. And how are the other men in the squad going to react to someone who is not a team player? ("You could get killed real easy. Don't you know that? Somebody stumbles. They don't *mean* to shoot you. They're sorrrrrry.") Great script... great acting... great direction... and a score by Ennio Morricone... what more could anyone want in a war movie?