Noutions
Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
Stellead
Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful
Voxitype
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Zlatica
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Eduardo Kiehl (mortarsquad)
kind of, assuming this movie is way way better and 10 years younger. I made this trailer with some of the lines of the movie and best scenes also. Impressive performance by unknown actors in this low-budget Vietnam drama. This movie actually is a great masterpiece.The story is being told in the form of a documentary, bringing you to the deep jungle of the Vietnam conflict.The immersion is so effective that is the closest experience you can get of a real patrol inside Nam-war era. The minors details of the guerrilla highlight by Patrick Duncan, the director, make he movie even more realistic.TRAILER 720p(upscaled) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrc3U4X2aZ0
Michael Neumann
Patrick Duncan's debut feature arrived late in the cycle of Vietnam War films but offered a unique perspective of the conflict, with no '60s nostalgia, no Heart of Darkness allegorical significance, and no coming-of-age baptism by fire. The film instead consists entirely of footage shot by an Army cameraman assigned to follow a six-man reconnaissance unit behind enemy lines, in effect making the audience another member of the patrol. It's a fascinating way to depict warfare at its most intimate and vulnerable level, without the crutch of big budget production values, but Duncan's faux-documentary technique sometimes works against itself because, strictly speaking, this isn't a documentary, and some of the dialogue sounds all too obviously scripted. The film works best when the camera is simply eavesdropping, showing how their proximity to death bonds each soldier together regardless of race or rank, and capturing like no other war film the tense ambiance of patrolling through hostile territory.
ripcords
As a former LRRP myself (LRSU it is now called) I was ecstatic to find this movie when it first came out as it wasn't highly budgeted nor widely released. The movie hits very authentic notes about LRRP teams except for the fact that they talk a heck of a lot more than any real LRRP team would in the filed (but then again, you wouldn't have much of a movie if they didn't talk). the attention to detail is very good, from calling in arty missions on a discovered enemy base camp to doing the damage assessment after it. The morale and esprit do corps of recon teams is shown very well here. If you are interested at all in small unit missions, this is at the top of the short list!
Alex-372
84 Charlie Mopic (84C Mopic) is the best movie ever made about small unit warfare. If that's what you're into, you're golden with this mock documentary about a LRRP/Ranger unit. A cast of unknown actors (Richard Brooks of Law & Order, Glenn Morshower of CSI, Christopher Burgard, Nicholas Gascone) generate extraordinary performances. The difference with other movies is that it gives a lot of attention to the detail of going on a small 5 man, 5 day mission as the LRRPs did. There is a lot of attention paid to noise discipline, and when enemy shots ring out, you have to work out for yourself from where. The enemy is seen up close only once in this movie.There is no heavy handed treatment of "politics" as in Hamburger Hill, no lots of nonsense like in Platoon, just five (seven) guys who are thrown together and have a job to do, and hopefully come through alive.If you like it, you may also like Sniper, with Tom Berenger and Billy Zane.
