Very Good Movie

Rating: 9/10 (17 June 2003)

You don't have to be a "war" movie buff to appreciate the action, suspense and grittiness of this film. This movie shows us how much firepower, calculation and luck was involved in winning just one battle against a determined enemy in Vietnam. The audience can see that there was little room for error when dealing with the Vietnamese flank and overwhelm tactics. The occasional scene swap back to America to deal with the first of 58,000 eventual grieving families was a nice touch. I give it a nine. If not for anything else, and it had "else", for the fact it made me proud to be an American.