What horsesh*&

Rating: 4/10 (15 September 1999)

This movie was totally awful, with the exception of a few well done battle scenes. The director and writer must both have seen Apocolypse Now's flawed last 1/2 hour, taken all the worst "oooooh, this is meaningful, and this is arty" Hopper/Brando offal from it, and then sullied the memory of the men who fought and died at Guadalcanal with this "girly-man" war flick.
Dialogue that means nothing (offset by dialog you can't hear, but why bother, because it probably means nothing too), symbolism without symbols, whole scenes that go nowhere and are left hanging; the whole movie plays like they took what ended up on the cutting room floor for the final print.