Put Platoon and Apocalypse Now in a blender and you get...

Rating: 5/10 (2 March 1999)

A friend warned me that this movie was too "deep." He was right. The ridiculous flashbacks were very distracting. The nature scenes were beautiful but out of place. I had heard the author of the book was trying to get across the idea that war is totally against nature. The second to last scene in "Platoon " with the deer walking through the battlefield was much more powerful than any nature scene in this film. I had to keep telling myself that this was a film about WWII and not Vietnam. It tries to be a great war movie, but will probably be quickly forgotten.