incredible...

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 2002)

Definitely the best Vietnam movie ever made. Masterful. A relatively realistic look at the Vietnam war, and definitely worth seeing.

SPOILERS!
There are a few war movie cliches... particularly with Gardner -with his fatal mistake of showing Charlie the picture of his gal back home- who is, obviously painfully and messily killed mere minutes later, and charlie being attacked by barnes right before the airstrike.
Definitely worth the 10, no matter what wholes you can find...
Also, I'm surprised, if Barnes was that deranged, and he would shoot Elias, why not frag that damn Wolfe, who seemed to be unable to make any decisions other than that "lets shell our own position", "avoid responsibility at all costs, and aid others in doing so", "maybe if i act like a demigod to soldiers that have been in for hundreds of time longer than i have they will respect me" and "fighting? where? get me the F**k out of here!" why? Both "platoon" and "aliens" just further my argument on the topic of boot-lewy fragging. Well, maybe just in movies, though i have known some real idiots. but i digress... Just see the dang movie.
10/10