Entertaining, but way, way to biased

Rating: 4/10 (27 February 2005)

Gosh. America loves their country. They love the fact that they win wars, and kill others. But they're Americans, so it's justified, right? Wrong. This is the latest piece of dross that is leaving me wincing with every horrifically biased element of every U.S. war film.
On the blurb, it says that it is a war classic, that truly shows the brutality of the Vietnam war. About all the horror. And plenty of violence. In one scene, a bomb literally blows up in a mans brain. Whilst that aspect may be relatively horrific, it doesn't do what other great war epics have: truly show the madness. When the guy is blown up, it's an American helping him, right? The fact is, in Platoon and Apocalypse now, it really showed how dreadful the war was. In this, the American flag is always waving in the breeze, with Mel heroically blowing the "bad guys" to bits. The only thing that is good about this is that the violence is realistic, and that it is very entertaining. But that cannot be shoved aside. This a bias, lewd piece of garbage, that may be good for instantly forgettable entertainment, but certainly isn't "Saving Private Ryan". Now that one really stays in my memory.