Silly philosophical narration detracts from otherwise powerful war movie

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 1999)

This movie had some excellent battle scenes that take place about an hour and a half into the movie. These scenes, plus the overall mood of sadness makes this a powerful movie that I would recommend. However, the doctoral philosophical narration by average soldiers doesn't ring true and gets to be downright silly and annoying as the movie goes on. I think this was a bit of self-indulgence by the director.Despite that, I was never at any time bored with this picture. It definitely holds your attention.