kind of movie that keeps sticking in your head afterwords!

Rating: 9/10 (6 November 2005)

I think this is a very good movie,one that goes much further psychologically than other war movies. There is a scene that I will never forget; a bunch of marines are seeing Apocalypse now and they are cheering like madmen at the famous scene of helicopters flying over a Vietnam beach going to destroy a village. At first, you tell yourself nae, this is greatly exaggerated but then again, with all the training and the brainwashing they had, you tell yourself, this must be true! Is this antiwar propaganda? It all depends on where you stand. Sam Mendes is truly a genius, I think. For any Marines past or present who may be reading this message, I want to know. When you get abused in training camp don't you just want to kill your training officer if only for a few seconds? I know I would.