Overrated.

Rating: 6/10 (18 July 2019)

Someone wrote exactly what I think and rated it what I did too. I guess I'm not the only one that feels there are two very different parts in this movie.
First is full of character development, great acting, and there was a better and clear direction on what was the point of that act.
On the second part we get action, shootings, explosions, but no direction on where is it going. The journalist is quite superficial, and everyone talking is quite dumb and unidimensional. I didn't feel like everything was being shown in terms of the horrors of a war like that.
After the strong characters on the first part (not many though, really), the second part feels quite shallow and aimless.
I'm guessing the point was to show how horrible is war even from before getting to the front line, so we've got the two halves to portrait that.
I just think they didn't add up as a great story and couldn't care really about the characters that survive throughout. They're all quite basic and crazy triggering freaks thirsty of blood, I honestly (and hopefully) have to believe that in reality not everyone was enjoying killing people.
Of course cinematography is always interesting and the productions are great in Kubrick's movies, but I don't feel this was a great one about Vietnam, I definitely prefer Platoon.