Real life tragedy mixed up with pompous pathos

Rating: 3/10 (7 January 2003)

At the beginning of film I started to think "Another propaganda crap". The beginning made me think that way. Another movie with stern but practical and basically good soldier (played by Gibson).
Than I was about cursing aloud when this character prays God that Vietnamese burn in hell. This kind of speaking shows total absence of faith and respect to God. For this military man religion is no more than another reason to kill. That's awful!
And than, have ever seen good reasonable soldier running around battlefield not crouching and "dodging bullets" but at full height? making oneself a "piece a cake" target?
At the second part I was emotionally swept away by course of action.
But what is good in the movie, is absence of "bad cruel Vietnamese" and "Good fair Americans". It is war, all are equally good and bad, peoples put in a position that requires them to kill one another. It is Fate that beyond peoples (i.e. soldiers fighting there, not politicians) reach.