Im no critic (only you James only you 
), so bare with me on this. Saw it last night. The realism, and non-stop action. This film is unlike any Vietnam War film that I have seen so far. I wasn't treated to the racial clash between soldiers, the drugs that the US soldiers got involved with or of the slap of the anti-war movement. Having read the book before viewing this film, you can totally see how the director stayed within the bounds of what the authors laid out: "an epic struggle of young, scared men fighting to live to see another day. A struggle that had their fullest attention from the moment their boots hit the tall grass and heat of the Ia Drang Valley." Its a movie of close quarter combat, up close and personal, amazingly horrifying.
James what did you think?
), so bare with me on this. Saw it last night. The realism, and non-stop action. This film is unlike any Vietnam War film that I have seen so far. I wasn't treated to the racial clash between soldiers, the drugs that the US soldiers got involved with or of the slap of the anti-war movement. Having read the book before viewing this film, you can totally see how the director stayed within the bounds of what the authors laid out: "an epic struggle of young, scared men fighting to live to see another day. A struggle that had their fullest attention from the moment their boots hit the tall grass and heat of the Ia Drang Valley." Its a movie of close quarter combat, up close and personal, amazingly horrifying.James what did you think?
