Propaganda piece from right wing loony Gibson

Rating: 4/10 (19 March 2005)

Lots of action in this well-made movie but it's just a remake of the infamous "green berets" with mel Gibson in the john wayne role. Just pure silliness to glorify the Vietnam War since, like our present war in iraq, we were lied into it by our leaders who fed us some hokum about fighting communism!!!! Like all wars of the last 1000 years, VN was about making money for the international bankers but that story is never told here.
Movie starts slowly but then the troops go to Nam and are immediately in a days-long and gruesome battle which lasts most of the movie. SPOILER. Many lives are lost on both sides, but the implication at the end is that America won the battle. One thing that really irked me is that at the end of the movie, Gibson's wife hears the doorbell ring and she and the viewer automatically think it's bad news about her hub. Instead, it's Gibson himself who survived the horror and has returned to his family. So why did he ring the doorbell before entering his home?
If you like war movies, you'll like this, but i suggest you skip it if you're the type who asks questions like "Why did America kill millions of people in a country that never did anything to us?"