A New Kind Of Racism?

Rating: 4/10 (29 December 2008)

I bought this DVD, rather than renting, and am unhappy I paid even five dollars for it. The reason, is not that the flick is poorly acted or produced, rather the script is full of hung-HO American military mythologies.
Lets begin, with the Marines in the Nam, doing whatever they can at not protecting the US, rather destroying a people. Later one of the North Viet Namese is seen, now a loyal American and in fact saluting the very man who was his enemy in 1968.
That murder is OK, under certain battle engagement conditions. Our hero blows away the brains of a Viet Namese radio operator simply because the commander will not call off his men.
Gosh, maybe Nixon and Johnson should have done that. A useless war is then used to back drop a massacre in Yemen. The plot seems to suggest, Marine always right, government officials always lie.
Hogwash. A good flick made dirty by a bigoted and racist script.
A don't bother flick, unless you're a red neck with an agenda.