Strong scenes that keeps on pulling me to keep watching this movie

Rating: 7/10 (26 September 2014)

From the really vivid opening of recruits shaving off their hair accompanied by the suggestive lyric of the soundtrack song, to the crazy accident in graduation eve, to the Vietnam streets and the last sniper battle, the movie present very strong depiction of what war, especially Vietnam war, does to all its combatants. The potentially dangerous creed instilled into the minds of the marines do forge them into becoming great weapons themselves, yet to some who can't endure it, it turns them crazy. The very ending is all too suggestive to the notion that nobody is immune to the effects war does to soldiers. The acting looks okay for a war movie, although for me, most of the cast play only a few expressions.