Madness of war

Rating: 10/10 (17 November 1998)

I feel that the one thing that characterised this show more than anything else for myself was the total lack of sensationalism in the movie. So little of the show seemed contrived, but it just simply feels like the way it was like. Too many movies today appear to demonstrate violence and carnage for its sake, but they invariably never made me feel for it the way that SPR did.
Some comments indicate that SPR is nationalistic. For me, it wasn't, and I'm an Asian. After watching the show, I felt saddened for the sheer numbers of lives wasted, and the hundreds of thousands of young soldiers- of ALL nationalities, not just Americans- for their tremendous sacrifice in the carnage. The leaders of the antagonistic nations be dammed, but it was the common soldier who had to die senselessly.