A Holiday at the Front.

Rating: 7/10 (24 July 2000)

This movie is quite funny, quite emotional, quite dirty, quite bloody, quite original, etc. All these little bits, combined with great acting, smooth and clean directing and the special atmosphere make this an exceptionally good movie. They're in Korea reanimating dead people, but still they enjoy their time, they try to relax a little, and I like that. Although I don't really see surgeons 3 miles from the front line acting like they're on holiday, but that's a little exaggerated of course. I can imagine that people at the front need a lot of humor to forget their fears.
Also exceptionally for a war movie is that the characters are no stereotypes, they have feelings, their mind evolves through the movie (like Hotlips, she really changed a lot: from the strict bitchy army officer to a woman who wants to seize the day). Try to find that in Rambo.
There's just one thing that bothers me about this movie: there isn't a real story going through the whole movie. Yes, there are some little stories, like the fights between Burns and the other surgeons. but they disappear after a while. The movie feels like you're watching the pilot episode of a TV series without a cliffhanger.
But that's a detail of course. I watched the movie and enjoyed myself very good, and that's what counts.
9/10