Yawn

Rating: 5/10 (5 November 2002)

I picked up this film as there was nothing else left at my rental store. Bad idea. As others said Mel Gibson is playing himself again, it looks indeed like a remake of Braveheart or Patriot(s). And does he have to preach us with religion in all his movies now ? I understand it must be a relevant movie for people studying war techniques and so on or also for the Vietnams Veterans. But as someone else wrote : it doesn't look like Vietnam at all, even if the making of shows they've planted Asian vegetation, it doesn't work one second. At least Morocco was credible for the same location in Spy Game. It also missed terribly the 60's beautiful music that is usually used for Vietnam's war films and helps you to put yourself back in time. And how lucky those soldiers were to all have so beautiful wives, some dummer than others for not getting the "whites only" sign at the laundrette but at least it helps us remember how life was for African American at the time. We watched 1/2 of it in fast forward and that's pretty rare. You have to watch it as a documentary based on a true story. The good thing on the DVD is that you get to see the "real guys and the wives". 5/10 with all the respect to all of you who took part to the battle, it's not your bravoury which is quoted but the picture only !