Poor imitation of a war film

Rating: 5/10 (1 June 2020)

If you like slam bang, shoot 'em up movies and not much else, then this might be for you. I guess a lifetime of watching action and war films has given me too much to compare this to. For anyone who's of an age where everything is compared to Saving Private Ryan, well I guess this isn't too bad.
From the opening I felt that casting and details give this flic a poor look. All the actors, every one, are way too old. WW2 Marines were 18, 19, maybe 20 tops. Not one "Marine" has a regulation haircut. Christian Slater uses way too much non-USMC issued product in all that hair. And mustaches?? Who the heck was in charge of historical details? Everything in the combat scenes is clean and green. None of the trees are blown off short. Those just don't translate with the over abundance of pyrotechnics.
The main actors were very stiff, actually except for the ones who played Navajos. They were rather convincing. But Nicholas Cage always seems to be in one of his Leaving Las Vegas, drunken thousand yard stares. Enough of the shortfalls, let's talk about what I liked.
Um.....well, let's see. Lots of stuff blows up. Nobody swears like a Marine. The good guys win in the end. John Woo attempts to correct any and all the then societal wrongs with short moments of righteousness. And that's about it. Sorry it wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great either. Woo needs to budget more for accuracy and less for explosions and pretty faces.