Pray for it to end!

Rating: Null/10 (8 May 2003)

Two hours of cringe worthy, boring, patriotic, vomit inducing, superficial, crap.
I watched this even after reading many of the negative comments expressed here but nothing prepared me for just how bad this film really was.
It adds nothing to the Vietnam/war movie genre with hardly any reference to the background history save for the slaughter of some French soldiers 10 years before the US involvement. It wasn't made clear why they were going to war and after an hour of `drama' (loads of sentimental, cheesy, family, religious monologue) I really didn't really care.
Gibson, at times, looks like he's playing the cop in Lethal Weapon and is totally out of character with the role he's playing. The rest of the cast were average stereotypical soldiers/soldier's wives spurting out as many clichéd lines as they could get away with.
The action was just about OK, nothing new and quite tedious after a while and the film dragged on till the usual, sickly sweet, happy ending.
Avoid at all costs 1 out of 10