highly overrated, way too long and very questionable

Rating: 1/10 (17 July 2003)

I won't give a summary or a deep analysis here, just a few questions and comments

If Mike is so fed up with war when he returns to his hometown, why does he keep on wearing his uniform sporting his stupid medals?

Why is the house decorated with flags when he gets home? The protagonists' lives have been destroyed in the name of the Stars and Stripes... is everybody a moron? And why do they sing "God bless America" in the last scene? Is it all some kind of bitter irony I don't unterstand?

the Vietcong are depicted as sick, brutal, perverse criminals whose favourite passtime seems to be torturing people; there are no American atrocities shown, however... hmmm...

the wedding scene is almost unbearable; 10 minutes would have been more than enough; I guess it was the editor's day off ?

the plot is SO predictable and the 'hunter motif' is SO cheap; by the way, shooting animals really sucks, so maybe it's a good thing Mike suffers from a Vietnam trauma in the end