ITS REAL WAR

Rating: Null/10 (29 August 1998)

This movie at least the first 20 minutes or more seal my opinion of the film,and the rest was rather curious at least to the last half an hour of the movie. Now,as a civilian,born 1958,I certainly don't have the experience to talk about this war,but I watched documentaries that bring tears to my eyes. I assume that I am personally not friendly with many serviceman in civilian life past or present,but I deeply respect the blood that was given and that they continue to give since it was and is the price of my freedom! I am black,and aware that this period was not the best for black servicemen ;nevertheless I am proud of the (WW2)servicemen white,black,and any other race of Americans,that served during that period. I hate to see in films about (WW2)American soldiers dying or being killed. I didn't notice in this film any black soldiers,but that wouldn't make me any less proud of the superhuman courage as represented by the actors in this film as white soldiers under such inconceivable pressure to secure the freedom that I take for granted. I didn't at first want to see this movie,because I thought that it was nothing more than a big budget film,and that it would depict a theme of heroism that was going to be a romance about gun-ho characters. The characters were very human,and the late actor (John Wayne) if he was in this movie as one of the characters his character would have been scared silly by the battle scenes in this film(no one is dying pretty in this film )! It is a real war movie or the real deal of fighting,suffering,and dying !