Not "Saving Private Ryan" but still one of the best.

Rating: 9/10 (9 January 2000)

This movie deals with the time that the army relieved the marines on Guadacanal. Very well done and perhaps the best ever performance for Nick Nolte. An academy award should have been due. Also the movie deals within the "head" of the combatants-something that is seldom done and done here very insightfully. One other thing that was done was to show the captured Japanese undergoing the same kind of emotional stress as their captors. Usually the Japanese are shown either stoic or vengeful. This is very helpful in understanding that our enemies are more like us than we like to suppose. "Private Ryan" was better in depicting actual combat in terms of accuracy but this should be ignored as this movie is more about what goes on inside the combatants than outside of them.