Hated it.

Rating: 2/10 (26 November 1999)

I gave it a vote as high as 3 merely because I believe that on technical merits alone, it was quite good. However, as far as its entertainment value, it had none whatsoever for me. I found that I could not see past the violence and gore... It therefore, as far as I was concerned, had no plot, no character development, no nothing. Many will disagree with those statements, but note that it's not that the script was without those things, or even that the actors necessarily did a bad job, but simply that the violence was just too strongly present.
I remember hearing that the director wanted this to be a movie that would "show how war really was". Well, I've never been in a war, nor do I have any desire to fight. If this movie gave me the feeling of being in a war, than if I am ever in one, I will become a mindless drone. I will be almost completely without emotion, my biggest feeling will be one of disgust. I do not feel, though, that this movie has made me feel any differently about war... I still think it's a horrible thing. The movies that have made me feel more strongly in that direction are those that have drawn me in to the characters lives, and then ripped those lives apart. Just a few such examples are Platoon and Schindler's List on the serious side, and just as potently Good Morning Vietnam and Life is Beautiful on the comedy side.