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Very disappointed
It is a story of the Vietnam war. We have seen many of them. It reflects only the very negative aspect of the war. All the main actors of the film either commit suicide or are killed. It is a very depressive movie.

MASH with Blue Language and no Laughs, Good Writing nor Acting.
As soon as the movie started, I thought it was of those cheap made for TV movies that were cranked out in the 70's. Well it was not made for TV, but it certainly was cheap. I think the whole movie budget had to go to Lancaster, who by the way was given some the corniest, cheeseball lines in his career. Battle scenes are sparse and look really cheap when they do occur. Not only are Lancaster's lines bad, the rest of the cast has nothing to work with either. Most lines are over acted and there is one character that is SO bad he was funny. On a postive note, I think is does show how screwed up aspects of the were executed, bit overall, I would like to have that 114 minutes of my life back...Bad, Bad, Bad...

Unrealistic Waste
I wasted good money on what I had read was a "good film". This is befitting of something that panders to stereotypes of the Vietnam war. The mid-1970s long haircuts, WWII vehicles, and over-acting detracted from what might have been a good film. If they had gotten a real soldier as a technical advisor for the film making, they could have avoided making it a cheap version of MASH. Sorry, the film is not instructive, does not realistically portray the Army of 1964 and is not very entertaining. As a Vietnam-era infantry veteran I give this film two-thumbs down.

FULLSCREEN release is not for the movie purist
I have watched this movie before on VHS. So when I saw that AMAZON had it on DVD I was delighted. However, then I noticed that it was released in FULLSCREEN. I would hope that the studios would re-release the movies in the aspect ratio that the movies were originally released in. I will not purchase any FULLSCREEN movies.

Not the Best!
This is not one of Lancaster's best films. One of the things that kill it is the stereotypical Pro-Vietnam War propaganda that was common during that period. The depiction of the NVA and VC even borders on racism. Forget this one!