This is the most generic-ass Vietnam movie I've ever seen. Everything in it feels like it was cribbed from other, better movies. This is the movie I think they were going to make in Tropic Thunder, before they dumped the actors in the jungle and Steve Coogan stepped on an old French land mine.
Lots of profanity, guys talking about what they're going to do once they're back in the world (meaning they will never actually make it back to the world). New guys getting killed pointlessly in battles to retake hills that had already been taken once before. Racial tension between the black GIs and the white ones. Characters named "Motown" and "Doc".
There's also a moment during a battle where one of the GIs shoots an NVA soldier at close range in the head with one of those heavy machine guns and the guy's head explodes like we wandered into Evil Dead.
It wasn't even effective at keeping my attention when I was looking for something to occupy my attention.
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