I don't even consider this to really be a movie, it feels like an extended television show. This is a cheap derivative movie of Platoon and the acting is sub-par - with Sean Penn blazing the way with his terrible and frustrating performance. He brings the film down every time he's on the screen.

Courageous but failed retelling of actual Vietnam War incident. Le is extraordinary as abused girl, but too much pseudo-philosophizing about guilt, innocence, and friendship bogs film down. Penn overacts wildly, while Fox is so weak as the squad's conscience that the result is like _Andy Hardy Goes To War_.

I always thought that_Platoon_was an over-the-top and balck-and-white depiction of Vietnam. I was corrected by watching this movie: Where_Platoon_hints at crucial points and things to think about for the audience, this movie isn't subtle in the least; too much of 'in-your-face' attitude. The characters are very stereotypical and I've seen better performances by Sean Penn.

Powerful.

One of the best Vietnam movies. It's more about moral than being at war but that's why it's different and better than ordinary war movies.

Goes on, and on, and on...

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"De Palma uses his consummate filmmaking skill to craft a reflection of his own grave sorrow about the Vietnam era." - Eric Henderson