Sentimental, cliche, patriotic... boring

Rating: 3/10 (26 August 2002)

I watched this movie because someone told me that it was mutch like Black Hawk Down, witch I loved, but this was nothing like it. This is such a sentimental movie, including all the cliches in the genre, even including the "Tell my wife... I love her" before someone dies. Jesus! Haven't we heard that enough by now? And since when is about every important person in a movie politically correct? Hal Moore Gibson couldn't have been any cheesier! He's not only intense religious, he's also the perfect father, the perfect husband, the perfect combat leader... and OH NO! Here comes a speech about how everybody is equal and stuff! If they wanted to make a hard combat movie (witch it claims to be, when you see the action scenes), they should have left all this crap out of it. The contrast between the action and the sentimental cheesy parts are really to big to make any sense. It's like they made 2 movies and than merged them together into one, so they could say: "This movie has it all: great action and drama". Maybe it's true it has both, but that doesn't mean this is a good movie!
3/10