The movie

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2006)

What a lousy, over-hyped movie this is. It was little more than a series of overacted performances exaggerated to the point of being ridiculous. The horror of war was not evident in this movie, only the horror of ham performances. Constant screaming, lots of blood and profanity are no substitute for good acting. Defoe's character is shot twice almost point blank by Berringer and yet he manages to survive and stagger around, one assumes this is Stone's attempt at dragging emotion out of his audience, although the emotion was humor and not sadness. These actors can be grateful that they were so young at the time of the movie and can use that as their excuse.