Hmong/ Montagnard Neighbors not Vietnamese

Rating: 10/10 (9 September 2009)

This, I would think, will become a classic. Great acting and a good, yet somewhat over exaggerated look at the Korean war generation. These guys were much like my uncles who fought in WWII, very crusty, realistic, no BS individuals. I enjoyed seeing Eastwood in this role. His way of thinking and looking at the world is so different from the way most people think today in their constant politically correct mode that it is very refreshing.
I have to correct one poster who mentioned Eastwood's neighbors as Vietnamese. Had he paid attention to what the woman said in the movie that they helped the Americans during the Vietnam War and that the Vietnamese persecuted them for it (and also because they wanted to steal their land). His neighbors are Hmong aka Montagnards (named by the French) the indigenous people who occupy the highlands of Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. They are not ethnic Vietnamese, so please make note of that.