ditch John Williams and the Flag, then it would be great

Rating: Null/10 (4 December 1998)

This film would have done better as a documentary. The action is great and the depiction of war is excellent, but the story is barely adequate and hardly matches its context.
The idea of 'sacrificing many for the one' is greatly overplayed and many of the scenes in which characters discuss the 'morality' of war seem painfully contrived. Add to this a waving American Flag and some cheesy war-music from Williams and you get a film which is great, but could have been fantastic.