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A group of young elite commandos, led by Captain Drummond are tasked with collecting highly classified information that can change the fate of the war.A group of young elite commandos, led by Captain Drummond are tasked with collecting highly classified information that can change the fate of the war.A group of young elite commandos, led by Captain Drummond are tasked with collecting highly classified information that can change the fate of the war.
Chi Mancho
- Cole
- (as Francis Mancho)
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- TriviaThe aircraft seen at "Da Nang" air field include: B-47 and B-52 bombers as well as F-4 and F-111 fighters.
- GoofsCharacter talks about MREs having one gram of fiber. MREs were not used in Vietnam. In Vietnam they used C or K rations. MREs were not used until the 1980s.
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Ou ever watch one of those movies where you roll your eyes so often you begin to get a headache? Well, this is one of those. Ambush is a 2023 war action thriller written by Mark Earl Burman, Michael McClung, Johnny Lozano, and Dillon Slack. It takes place in the early days of the Vietnam War, and follows American soldiers tasked with retrieving a stolen classified binder containing the names of south Vietnamese operatives undercover in the north. An interesting enough plot for sure, but it is so chock full of historical inaccuracies that it quickly becomes a comedy of errors. Anyone who has ever watched classics like Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Hamburger Hill will start to pick out the goofs and gaffs within this one rather quickly. Within the first few minute of the movie an American sniper rises up out of the tall grass, all decked out in an uber cool ghillie suit ... and I'm pretty sure he was holding the same model air rifle I had as a kid. And since we're on the subject of camouflage, we need to address the use of woodland camouflage pattern, which was not introduced until the early 80s, so to see soldiers wearing it in a Vietnam-era movie is evident that no money at all went toward hiring a military consultant. Had they done so, they might have realized that those bright shiny colonel rank insignia worn by Johnathan Rhys Meyers' character would never be used in the field, as it would make them a prime target for enemy snipers (and their air rifles) ... AND also that they belong ON the collars of the uniform, not pinned to the blouse below them. Also there is the use of the rather asinine modern day idiom "What the actual F!" which, according to some, was first used in an episode of Trailer Park Boys in 2002. So hearing some irate special forces captain using it to chastise a cowering soldier during the Vietnam War only ads to this movie's absurdity. Overall this movie is a mess, and probably best avoided.
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $26,305
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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