Product: Casualties of War [UMD for PSP] (1989)
Rating: 2.0
Anti-War
The movie was well made and acted. Sean Penn was excellent as usual as well as M.J.Fox, but I didn't like the anti-war message. The entire film was set up to give the "anti" message from the beginning and portrayed most of the American soldiers as heartless killers and rapists. There were philisophical speaches right in the middle of patrols and only one American (Fox) was portrayed as a human with a concience.The film was "based" on a true story, and we all know these kinds of atrocities happened even among our fine American soldiers, but I prefer a more realistic portrayal.If you want to see real men, in real situations and speaking like real men speak to each other then see "Hamburger Hill". I don't need all the anti-war hype to understand that war is bad. War is terrible for everyone involved, and I don't need speeches or in-your-face explanations to realize that. All I ask for is realism.If you want a philisophical and whiney film then it's ok, but I wanted realism and don't think it delivered as well as many other war dramas.