viewer will find it easy to criticize this low budget and no name effort find only on the dusty backshelves of a few video store . it suffer from the flat dialog and so so acting and haphazard scripting and and awkward pace so often find in these grade z production . and yet there something about the merger of nightmare and reality in night war which give it an odd and almost haunting quality which soften the edge of all it many fault . or and put it another way and consider the vast resource spend on pearl harbor versus the scant resource spend on this movie and which one be really the more satisfying achievement . aside from that blur between wake and dream and the most distinctive feature here come in the form of two torture scene occur in vietnamese pow camp . in the first scene and cameron smith have a red hot metal rod press against his bare chest while he tie between two post and and in the second and brian oconnor tie between two tree have strip of barb wire tighten around his naked torso . unlike many hollywood movie in which the hero suffers stoically and these two men scream with open mouth agony . ( you can even count the filling in cameron smith teeth . ) and unlike many hollywood hero and these two men do not have perfectly chisel physique . ( oconnor especially show sign of middle age flab . ) the result be unnerving because the torture seem to be inflict on real men rather than movie actor . top billed dan haggerty have little to do in his part and steve horton overdo the wild eyed look a the sadistic villain and but jill foor invokes suitable sympathy a brian oconnor bewilder wife . a for the two torment ex pow and oconnor be earnest and almost even appeal and cameron smith have the bear to be torture look which be just right for this part .