Hamburger Hill researching the Battle of Hamburger Hill. Irvin, an English-born filmmaker, worked on several documentaries in Vietnam in 1969. Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" called "Hamburger Hill" a "well-made Vietnam War film that narrows its attention to the men of a single platoon in a specific operation." In differentiating the film from "Platoon", he noted the film "refuses to put its characters and events into any larger frame. It could have been made a week after the conclusion of the operation it recalls, which is both its strength and weakness, depending on how you look at it." Hal Hinson
Hamburger Hill of the "Washington Post" credited the filmmakers for creating a "deeply affecting, highly accomplished film", but felt that "<nowiki>[Carabatsos]</nowiki> and his collaborators seem to feel compelled not only to show us their war, but tell us what we're to think about it", weakening the film's effect and keeping it from being a "great war movie". The film currently has the score of 100% from Rotten Tomatoes. The film debuted at No.5 at the box office bringing in a total of $3.3 million. Hamburger Hill Hamburger Hill is a 1987 American war movie about the actual assault of the U.S. Army's