One of THE most overrated films...

Rating: 1/10 (28 August 2012)

Awful gung-ho (which reaches its absolute nadir in the first russiam roulette scene)racist rubbish dressed up as a "message film".
And that side of its bad enough but then you have to add the illogicality and inaccuracy which pervades the film. A group of 35 year old men suddenly deciding to sign up for Vietnam and then amazingly ending up serving together over there. The fact that the steel town scenes and especially the wedding would have taken place around 1967-69 but every one's dressed in late 70s fashions has late 70s haircuts. I know there's such a thing as artistic licence but this goes way beyond that and surely this type of film needs realism and accuracy to make it work.
Ironically I liked the first few minutes of them working at the steelworks and knocking-off into the half light - very atmospheric and well done but from then on in - what a waste of time.