Not just for war buffs

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2005)

This is definitely one of the best films of the past thirty years. It's good to see the harsh reality of war revealed as it is, not how some people want to glamorize it and be patriotic about it. Devastating, compassionate, realistic. Yes, it's pretty long, but it's worth watching every minute. De Niro at his finest. If you don't know whether to rent this or say, Showtime, well, maybe you don't know much about movies. The music is perfect in setting the mood. It's even got some humor in it. So sit back, relax, and get ready to see one of the films that attempts to show what it was really like in that war, although perhaps no one can really tell you what it was like, unless you were in it.