Yes Virginia, there is a Viet Cong

Rating: Null/10 (4 May 2003)

You'd have to go back to THE RIVER and MRS. SOFFEL to find a Mel Gibson
movie this bad. From the nauseating scene about a white woman's
confusion at the laundromat- "It said Whites only!" to the child asking
"Daddy whats a war?" to Gibson's Harold Moore believing that being a
soldier and a father makes him better at both (I suppose he lobs
grenades in his kids room when they wont do the dishes and reads his
troops stories when they can't sleep), this is just a tired, misguided,
stupid movie. Its greatest mistake is trying to make a simple combat
film about the Vietnam War. Why bother? The only reason to see it is for
Sam Elliot, whose particular charm and skill has been put to much better
use in other films, specifically THE BIG LEBOWSKI and THE CONTENDER.
Wait until cable for this one. And then change t