Product: Casualties of War [UMD for PSP] (1989)
Rating: 1.0
STUPID; NO WAIT. BEYOND STUPID
An average rating of 4 stars before me?!? Have our standards sunk so abyssmally low?!?!?Foxx can't act period!! He has no brain and no talent. This, like every other roll has tried to set him up as some macho superstud which he isn't!(trouncing Heidi Klum in Spin City? NO WAY! Wouldn't happen) He has a very good agent; that's it! Back to the Future-2, maybe 3 stars stretching it. But let's face it. His emmy was a pity-ploy only becaue he has a disease. His best rolls are child-like because he's so infantile. This roll, for him like every other is affected and phony.For the smear piece this is against our military, this isn't even a good attempt.Depalma no less, good a rep as he has, should have hired a military advisory for this 1, which he obviously didn't! There are too many problems and protocol issues to count. And I assert these with a military background of my own.DePalma should have chalked this 1 up to a failure and never even released it. Just paid the paychecks and flushed it.Penn & Foxx were the only big names in this film I think to elicit viewership. The rest of the cast are a bunch of no-names who, almost certainly, for their lack of talent, at least for this one, we, hopefully, won't see in too much else.Some of the takes with Penn/Spiccolli (Fast Times @ Ridgemont High roll) and his phony accent being so thick as to be almost unintelligible are so bad as to be ridiculous. The scenes where he's, most significantly, viciously barking out orders to "kill the prisoner"; to anyone with a scintilla of brains, the obvious question is, "if he's justified,why doesn't he do it himself?" If this question were logically answered, there would be no reason at all for the movie; which maybe would be a good thing?The scenes even after Foxx's character is finally granted a hearing, as a Private First Class is telling captains to go screw themselves? These go so far beyond being grounded in reality as to be laughable.If someone gave me this movie I wouldn't even attempt to sell it it's so stupid & unrealistic.