Product: Casualties of War [UMD for PSP] (1989)
Rating: 3.0
War Crimes Movie Worth Seeing Once
Basically this film scores average for being a very half-witted 1 hour war movie, 20 minute crime movie and a 5 minute court room drama instead of being a 1 hour court room movie, 20 minute crime movie and a 5 minute war movie.The reson why it scores more than two stars is because there is an interesting cast (Fight Club extra appear here, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo and Ving Rhames) that put up a very good act including Sean Penn who acts everyone else around the block, making Fox look a little out of his depth here... and in many ways he is (the boy from Back to the Future just doesnt work here) but the child-like features of Fox are used to make us feel sad... but in reality does not have to be there considering the nature of the movie (war sex crimes). We simply dont need Fox doing the drama thing with tears in his eyes to tell how to feel about what we are seeing.To be honest it is worth seeing once, just to comprehend that these things do go on, this did happen and that adult criminal sadists can work for the military also. Here the pack mentality of war crimes is on show for the most of it but it would have been a much better court room drama told flashback style.In short - misdirection of a worthy topic.