Shattering

Rating: Null/10 (7 February 1999)

This is a story, a piece of fiction. No DI ever got killed by his own troop. Hue didn't really look like Newark NJ and the two halves didn't really mesh...That is the point, and one reason while the whole effect of the movie is so shattering. Bootcamp (Basic Training for us Army types) wasn't supposed to duplicate Vietnam, it was supposed to create the mental state which would permit you to carry out your mission and survive. For another look at Lee Earmy see Siege at Firebase Gloria for some more classic hard guy lines and a "conventional" war movie. When you left the movie you were twisted and exhausted like Kubrick does...remember the last 20 minutes of 2001???