Poorly done from a naive director

Rating: 5/10 (2 March 2002)

It mixed in token PC bull****, such as humanizing the Vietanemse to a laughable degree and adding equal black rights messages which made the film stupid. It was cliched and ripped off MANY films, most obviously All Quiet on the Western Front, Braveheart, and Black Hawk Down. There was no characater development outside of Gibson, who was a good actor actually. The action was well directed, but it had flaws too. The dialogue was extremely laughable at times, and the old guy Plumely was a rip off of Lee Marvin from the Dirty Dozen. Also, a certain character had a magic force field around him preventing any injury. STAY AWAY!!!