Hard to Watch - may contain spoiler

Rating: 1/10 (6 July 2000)

warning *** may contain spoiler - A true work of anti-art this one is. Never have I seen a war movie depicted with such callous disregard for reality. It's almost as if an overlay of 1990's contemporary philosophy is misplaced over the characters fighting in ww2 pacific theatre. At several points we have a comment that this war is 'nothing but a war over dirt(or property)' and we get the impression that this is a common view of the day. After Pearl Harbor, it would be a hard sell to believe that people thought anything like this during the war. And then there is the main character with this psychopathic half smile everytime someone dies as if its a happy moment. Or take the care free soldiers taking time to appreciate nature while in the midst of mortal combat. I would challenge the director to sit with some veterans from Tarawa and get THEIR opinions on this film. Definitely hard movie to watch, may take several sittings...its that terrible.