This was surprising on a few fronts. First the two leads were pretty bad I thought. Berenger was ok, but just didn’t fit the intensity of the role I thought, and Sheen was just bad. The other surprising thing was the limited scope. I guess I figured with the other Stone movies I’ve seen this was going to be more about trying to indict the powers that got us into Vietnam, but this was a lot more just about personal ethics so that was pretty welcome. Also there were a lot of scenes that didn’t seem to reach the intensity they should have or tried to. The line drawn between potheads-good people, drinkers-bad was pretty lame, as was the narration of letters home to grandma.
on Saturday, June 21st, 2008 at 6:33 pm.
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