How to win an Oscar

Rating: 7/10 (8 July 2013)

This movie starts well but as soon as the protagonists get to Vietnam it just gets very - silly.
The Soviets staged a walkout at the Berlin Film Festival when this was shown. I'm not surprised. The first Vietnamese depicted on the screen commits an atrocity on civilian women and children (that way we know who the baddies are). He pays for his crime, however, when the hero burns him alive - hooray!
Then, all the heroes are captured by the enemy. Oh no! How could this happen? We are spared the humiliation of viewing this terrible event because next up is a hideous torture scene. Who knew that the Commies played Russian roulette with their (highly valuable) US prisoners?
Never fear, the heroes kill their captors and escape! Luckily they can just float down the river to be picked up - then dropped back in the river? Oh well - back to Saigon where they are able to overcome the trauma of captivity - by playing some more Russian roulette?
And so it goes until the movie ends with a rousing rendition of "God Bless America" - the US must have won the war after all! Oscars for everybody!!
** SPOILERS ** Some deer were injured in the making of this movie ** SPOILERS **