You got to ge kidding me ...

Rating: 1/10 (11 May 2002)

Cliché followed cliché and platitude followed platitude and not even the sometimes nice cinematography could reimburse for lack of story and bad actors, including Mel Gibson. What was Randall Wallace thinking when he made this movie, I'd really like to ask him that.
There have been quite a few films about the Vietnam war and it's consequences not only for the US government but for every single soldier who was involved in that conflict over the years. So, why another conventional one?
Maybe if that film would have had the bravery to tell that particular story from a more creative, a more daring perspective. But sadly, the director decided to follow old fashioned, beaten paths. The enemy remained colorless and characters flat, the choreography of battles was pitiful and sometimes killingly funny, as well as the little bit of dialogue there was.
It's an uninspired film that never needed to see the light of day, in my humble opinion ...