Agree, cracking film!
Read some bad reviews of it online, but I found it an excellent film. Not only based on true events, but shows the courage and brotherhood that bonds soldiers on the front line, and the heartache of the families who lose their sons and husbands on the field of battle.
I suppose some people don't think it was political enough for a film set during the Vietnam war. :
That movie captured the feel and mood at the time of that battle to a tee. I read reviews slamming it to, and i was shocked at the ineptitude of some reviewers not knowing their history. They complained it didn't capture the hopelessness of the Vietnam war as in a Platoon type feel.. hello, this was the first battle of the war!! :
At that time these soldiers went in with that fresh hopeful outlook any new soldier in those days did. They hadn't heard any bad media before, all they had seen was John Wayne films all gung ho about world war II. Brilliant film IMO, and very hard to watch in parts to. The bit where they pick up the asian lad who has been burnt by napalm gets me every time. Sad stuff.
For me, im a big fan of Black Hawk Down. Don't ask me why, but the hard hitting of that film just really got me in. And i have done a bit of history research when in high school on the whole thing and i just really enjoy it as a film. As far as the event itself goes, a tragedy. Cannot believe how under-prepared they went in. Then after that Clinton just decided to pack up and leave. So much for the mission there :
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