I can see both sides to this... (SPOILERS!)

Rating: Null/10 (22 August 2002)

Yes, you can call it over-rated, meandering, "Drunks go to war", or you can call it "Brilliant but flawed", "Great", the best movie ever, etc. I call it a poser: "Do I like this because of the performances, or just because of the theme?" I've watched this film five times, and I still don't know.
When Steve falls from the Huey, he says he fell on some rocks. I take that to mean is that he fell on his lower back or tailbone, perhaps shattering his pelvis and his legs. What I found interesting is that the Huey he fell from is a UH-1A (Bell Model 204), a model of Huey rarely seen in `Nam pictures.