It's been done. (SPOILER ALERT!)

Rating: 1/10 (10 September 2002)

WARNING!
This review has some elements that could spoil your viewing pleasure, but I doubt it.
WARNING!

We've seen it all before.
The VC outnumber the american troops by 100 to 1 (at least), while the american troops, led into battle by a bible-thumping colonel (played over-dramatically by an unimpressive Mel Gibson), mows them down in endless MTV-style clips.
This isn't a very good film, even by war film standards. "The Platoon" is much better, "Pearl Harbor" is better, even the Rambo-style films are better. Although the film surely had a large budget (Gotta pay Gibson, right?), most of clips feels rudimentary or downright cheap (but the exploding heads and whatnot is nice -- if you like that sort of thing).
The films main problem is however not the editing, but the characters. They're bleak, and either traditionally one-sided "all american heroes", or plain cannon fodder. There simply aren't any interesting characters around for the viewer to focus on. The colonel is bland, his roughneck master sergeant is a typical stereotype, the reporter that drops his M16 for a camera is a given.
If we were to remove the characters and just had the explosions, I'm sure the film wouldn't suffer much. This just isn't worth seeing.