i have the misfortune of view this film on the first day of a course on medium and democracy . base on the fact that the professor accept everything portrayed in it a fact and i drop the course that afternoon . i have never see such a hopelessly bias film in my life . a a 19 year veteran of the u army and i can tell you that the atrocity allege in this film do not occur . our troop do not shoot bound prisoner in the back of the head . we do not indiscriminately shell civilian residential area . the film most absurd claim and such a that u force use some sort of laser weapon against panamanian civilian and do not even bear refuting . the fact that such a blatant piece of anti military propaganda win an academy award say far more about the makeup of the academy than it do about the film .