Product: Casualties of War [UMD for PSP] (1989)
Rating: 4.0
The Vietnam Experience
I watched this movie long ago and don't remember all the scenes, but I just got it in the mail today and thought I should say a few things about this movie. I like it and it has plenty of action in it and all, but unlike some other low-star reviews, this movie does not portray ALL American soldiers as murderers and rapists. In Vietnam, there were a few GI's who were a little f**ked in the head and what they did to quite a few Vietnamese villagers in revenge for their buddies being killed went far beyond the ways of justice. Take the My Lai incident in '68 when 2Lt. Calley's platoon was responsible for murdering over 500 villagers, including rape cases on a few people too. Not every American soldier in that platoon decided to get involved, but there are a few nutcases that decided to not let anything stop them in their goal of vengeance. So I remember that this movie didn't recklessly place the average American soldier in the level of some wannabe criminal. Soldiers like Michael J. Fox's character in the movie made their attempts to stop these crimes from taking place, but they still happened, and this movie, which is a pretty big action-thriller, will remind everyone of that.