This is the kind of movie that Hollywood loves because they think it's DEEP.

Rating: Null/10 (29 August 1999)

This movie was b-a-d. I can see why the movie industry liked this movie -- it was full of symbolism which makes them feel smart and sophisticated if they "get it." But showing a worm eaten leaf as someone dies from a gun shot wound is not deep, it's out of place. If they were going to show it the camera should have panned or zoomed in on it, not cut to it and back.
Then there was the fact that you could hear the soldiers' thoughts which were all flowery drivel. I know no men who think in flowery prose. If one character thought that way they might have pulled it off but not all of them. Give me a break. Oh this movie was deep all right--give me a shovel.
Now lets get to the story line---whoops there wasn't one. So much for that.
There was also anachronisms such as WWII soldiers wearing Viet Nam era jungle boots and use of WWI era .303 Enfield Rifles and one soldier was using a M1 carbine which was only used in training issued to paratroopers. Let's get it right folks. DUH! And why would they bury someone in the field? If they were able to send someone to a field hospital they obviously were not so cut off that they could not retrieve the body and send it home.