Good but......

Rating: 8/10 (24 August 2000)

The first half of the movie is very good, showing the reality of the USMC boot camp. But it did not show the reality of the Vietnam War. In this movie it makes it look like the only downside to being in the war is getting shot and killed. They also took away reality of the war like at the part where it shows a camera man filming the soldiers and they all get to say something into the camera like it was planned ahead of time. And the only good characters was Lennord Larwance nick named Goymer Pyle and Gunnery Srgt. Hartman. Lennord is a misfit not good at anything then finds out he's an expert marksman and starts improving. Srgt. Hartman's character is as real as you can get, yelling swear words and insulting the soldiers to get them motivated, he doesn't like Lennord at the beginning but towards the end of boot camp he takes a shine to him. This movie's first half is good and worth seeing but don't bother with the second half.
** out of ****