Underrated for what it is. Pure drama, action and entertainment.

Rating: 8/10 (27 February 2011)

Ten years in, and this has the most hated/loved war movies ever! The film is one thing, but the reviewer/viewer public has been pure bi-polar on this one. Most truly bad films just fade and are rarely seen or shown after a few years. Not this one, ten years later and it's still on all the time on TV. People watch it, I watch it. It gets ratings.
I first saw shots of this movie in a electronics store in Pearl City, back in about 2003. Strange twist, I saw it there of all places. Anyway, the action and cinematography blew me away on those early big screen LEDs. And it still does. Historically?? Right, I get it - it couldn't be right. But, entertainment isn't all about historical accuracy, or it would all be just documentaries. Entertainment is about love, heroism.. Stuff like that. It's story telling.
This film is too hated, I say. So I give it an eight, to help make up for all the bogus one, two and threes..
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