Fictional telling of a crack team of commandos while the Vietnam War was still raging, though not yet as problematic.
I don't know what was more awkward -- Duke Wayne sardonically asking Dave Janssen if he's ever been to Vietnam, meaning: "Keep your mouth shut if you've never served in the armed forces" (Wayne never did); or Jim Hutton's 'Three Stooges' finger-snapping accompanied by a light-hearted background musical ditty as if the whole Vietnam experience was just like a summer retreat at Camp Stupid, U.S.A.
Not a very good movie; try 'Apocalypse Now' instead, but I personally am still waiting for a Hollywood film about the Vietnam War that even comes close to registering gritty despair rather than the pomp and circumstance found here.
I don't know what was more awkward -- Duke Wayne sardonically asking Dave Janssen if he's ever been to Vietnam, meaning: "Keep your mouth shut if you've never served in the armed forces" (Wayne never did); or Jim Hutton's 'Three Stooges' finger-snapping accompanied by a light-hearted background musical ditty as if the whole Vietnam experience was just like a summer retreat at Camp Stupid, U.S.A.
Not a very good movie; try 'Apocalypse Now' instead, but I personally am still waiting for a Hollywood film about the Vietnam War that even comes close to registering gritty despair rather than the pomp and circumstance found here.