Better than I expected

Rating: 9/10 (20 June 2020)

I found this to be a very powerful and moving film. I don't understand the negative reviews (well, maybe I do).
Refreshing view of the Vietnam War. While we sympathize with the main characters, the movie is not shy about showing their brutality towards the Vietnamese people. They get no passes.
This is not your 1980s Vietnam War movie. Americans are not the "good guys" here. Even though we kind of want to see them "win", we see a lot of reasons why they shouldn't.
Because they went through the worst. Unsustainable conflict with moving targets, losses at every turn. The world burning back home. Their lives were forfeit, numbers on a piece of paper. Rage is an appropriate response to this.