Title: Flawed but good
Review: To all those who cripe about this movie not being realistic and trudging up 'Apocalypse Now' as an exemplary Viet Nam flick, I say "Get out of the 1970s." Not every colonel in Viet Nam was a psychotic, megalomaniacal fool. Not every GI burned villages for sport.Did those things happen? Sure. But they were not the ONLY thing that happened. The war was fought primarily by average people in a totally fubar situation, created chiefly by our own government and its provincial myopia.Are there a ton of John Wayne-ish cliches in this movie? You bet. And it also shortchanges the futility of the heroism of the Air Cavalry. But it's a long overdue positive look at the guys who fought and died.
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