With a great cast of all men, this swamp set war training film has the soldiers dealing with their fellow Americans, resulting in a battle that started over the use of the Cajun locals canoes that resulted in booby traps. Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe and Fred Ward are the familiar actors in the film, one that ends up being nail biting and greatly disturbing. The locals are ruthless in their non-stop revenge that results in some very gruesome and painful deaths. You have to be in the mood for a film like this, and I remember being very disturbed by it the first time I saw it 40 years ago.
So be greatly prepared for encounters with the traps placed in what will obviously be watery graves, maybe not as vile as what occurred in Vietnam but obviously equally as sinister. One of the soldiers meets his demise in the most shocking and sudden ways, reminding me of Boris Karloff in "The Lost Patrol". There are even impalements that come out of nowhere, so be prepared for the unexpected. Coming from a time when there were tons of movies about the horrors of the Vietnam War, this was obviously passed over as a modern classic, but though I won't be watching it again, I can say that this is just as good as the others even though it doesn't have any Oscar's to its name.
So be greatly prepared for encounters with the traps placed in what will obviously be watery graves, maybe not as vile as what occurred in Vietnam but obviously equally as sinister. One of the soldiers meets his demise in the most shocking and sudden ways, reminding me of Boris Karloff in "The Lost Patrol". There are even impalements that come out of nowhere, so be prepared for the unexpected. Coming from a time when there were tons of movies about the horrors of the Vietnam War, this was obviously passed over as a modern classic, but though I won't be watching it again, I can say that this is just as good as the others even though it doesn't have any Oscar's to its name.