Sure, you can argue warhawks just give the movie 5 stars for its propoganda message, and that liberals will just give it 1 star as pussy opposed-to-anything-positive-about-Vietnamers, but if you just watch the film, it sucks. North Carolina topography, obviously hosed-in water, rigid filming, poor acting (anybody remotely Asian-looking will do for a Vietnamese), and dialogue that I have heard 1000 times, and pretty lame action.People just need to honest that this film lacks redeeming qualities, its interesting as a period piece, but couldn't we be using this printing material to reproduce a better movie? Maybe Ishtar?