Stupidest War Movie of All Time

Rating: 1/10 (14 July 2009)

The only people with one screw loose too many more than Stanley Kubrick - who made this mess - are the ones who have spun it as some sort of intellectual triumph. Good grief! A Viet Nam war movie set not in Viet Nam (oh, no) set in an abandoned power plant in England. From there everything gets dumber and dumber, this despite having a truly excellent actor, Vincent D'Oniofrio, giving his best.
Cutting to the chase, the ending reveals the Great Truth according to Mr. Kubrick: "The enemy is a woman." This is meant literally and figuratively. Of course it wasn't Ho Chi Mihn's men the Americans were fighting. It wasn't the Cambodians. It wasn't the Chinese Communists. They were fighting "a woman" and they fought her in England. Gag me with a spoon!