We were wasting our time

Rating: 4/10 (21 July 2002)

I've heard so many comments about this movie that I wanted to write my own. First of all, I didn't like the movie. I found myself waiting for the dying guy who reserves his last words to his parents or wife (which happens TWICE in this movie), and for several other scenes. Many people says: "Hey, that's war, that really happens", I know, I'm not saying it doesn't. And it has been shown in a hundred other movies, so, why make another one?
I found this movie to be a fairly average american war-movie (with the exception of two or three scenes which were really AWFUL) with lots of blood and deaths to shock the audience and lead them to say: "Gee, war is bad". It amazes me the high rating it has achieved in IMDB.
One comment made often is the one that says: "It's an american movie, that's why it only shows americans". Well, imagine that a movie comes out showing the vietnamese as heroes and the americans as a bunch of idiots whose deaths are given 1/10th of a second on-screen, would you be happy about it? Not only because it's an american movie, it has to forget the rest of the world.
Well, I guess this is only my opinion. And we don't have to worry about this movie a lot, time will tell if it's worth a look after another twenty years. I guess not...