NOT the greatest war movie ever made

Rating: 5/10 (7 September 1998)

The battle scenes rang true but there was too much Hollywood schmaltz in the script, not to mention the overdone music track. Full Metal Jacket was a more honest film, with a more unflinching look at the horrors of war and free of any little circular plot devices to tie it neatly together. The greatest anti-war film IMHO was "Prisoner of the Mountain", a film that came out of Russia a couple of years ago.