The acting, the characters, everything in this film is superb

Rating: 10/10 (25 June 2000)

After having seen this film in the spring of 1999, it remains my favourite film of all time (that I have seen anyway).
The acting in this movie is superb, a fine mix of new talent such as the wonderful Jim Caviezel, to the more established names of Sean Penn and Nick Nolte, providing cameo parts to other great actors, such as John Cusack, and George Clooney. The horror of what is going on around them, and the profound effect it is having on them is shown, not only in their lines, but in the way they say them, and the looks on their faces.
Another part of this film that stands out, is the scores and chants put to the film by the ever amazing Hans Zimmer. To close your eyes during one of the many battles and hear the horrors through music is a powerful feeling.

There is so much more I could say about this film, its imagery, directing, the way it shows the key battles on the way to Hill 210 and the Airfield. The emotion given out at the horror of it.
This is definitely a film to buy on DVD, people say extras are light, but who cares, the film is the important bit, its only a shame the BBFC cut 6 minutes off the American version.