Casualties of War

After watching this movie, it disturbed me... now I realize why US lost this dirty war... because of GIs who were worst than the NVA and VCs.... Vietnam must be a lesson on how USA lost its morality and eventually its... Full review

By far the best movie from Michael J.Fox and Sean Penn. Incredible acting from Mr. Fox and even more so from Sean Penn. "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadows of death, I will fear no evil. Cause... Full review

I would have loved to see Michael J. Fox still acting today. He was amazing in this movie. Sean Penn was good too but Fox stole the show like he does in all of his movies. This is a good movie... Full review

this a true story, even if the soldier in question reported it after a long time of thought. you are in country fighting and you have mixed emotions about what you read and hear. time is our friend when used right... Full review

It isn't a good movie about Vietnam. It is hard to hold someones interest and the acting isn't exactly amazing, nor are the visuals. I just don't suggest wasting money on this flick... Full review

Just watched again, 12 years later. During my cuurent project about Vietnam, I have just witnessed a masterclass movie. Also watching the Killing fields, another epic based on the far east. Brilliant.... Full review

This movie is an honest portrait of things that happened during the war, it is based on a true story which is very hard to accept while watching it because of the trauma the kidnapped girl is going through, it is... Full review

This movie was very good. Rape happened in the Vietnam war and I was suprised a movie went as far as to distribute it. Don't ask why. I thoght the story was very good in showing what it was like in... Full review

YUMMY MICHAEL J FOX WAS SOOOOOOOOOOO DAMN SEXY AND HOTT OH GIMME GIMME GIMME !!!!!!!!!!!!! I CANT BELIEVE HOW SEXY HE LOKS WHEN HE'S IN THA SHOWER..........OH GOD..................GIMME GIMME GIMME......................UMMM YEAH THE MOVIE WAS SO POWERFUL I OVED IT........................*DROOL* OH DAMN... Full review

Masterpiece! This movie is magic and makes me sad that our country was ever involved with that vile war of nothingness, and no I am not against the troops. I think Johnson was an idiot and that he should never... Full review

If you'd like to O.D. on depressing flicks with a jungle setting, right before the "bathtub and razor-blades" party, check out these as well.....it at least has some amusing moments.... ... Full Review

DVD STUFF : The Extras Casualties Of War looks very good, though the audio isn't overly impressive. Eventually we'll witness a brutal rape and there's no question that such things occurred during the Vietnam War. ... Full Review

And that's too bad, since the only thing Casualties of War really had going for it was its nightmare-trance imagery. As drama, the movie is sustained yet hopeless - it coasts along on the kind of schoolbook-simple, this-is-good-and-this-is-bad pieties Vietnam made obsolete. ... Full Review

But the movie makes it inescapable, especially when we reflect....Perhaps the movie would have been more effective....He does, in a performance of overwhelming, brutal power.....And its examination of the realities of the situation is what's best about the movie.....This whole sequence of scenes is harrowing.... ... Full Review

Nevertheless, he is quite touching here, topped only by Sean Penn in a superb, frightening performance. He conveys the sinister horror of the situation with his tilted widescreen angles, but there's time to appreciate the jungle for its beauty and its terror. ... Full Review

Three-part story examines a cluster of 15 murders and attempted homicides committed by current and former soldiers at Ft. Carson, Colorado 'Ft. Carson Killings : The New Casualties of War' airs on HDNet, Tuesday, June 2 at 9:00 p.m. ... Full Article

Casualties of War* goes to Iraq, but why? This was a lethally pretentious exercise in aesthetic point-scoring, and the points didn't even make sense. 3 The X-Files: I want to Believe (Chris Carter) Mulder and Scully reunite to explain some... ... Full Article

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I may be putting Pauline Kael's assertion that Casualties of War is De Palma's finest film in suspicious context to say so, it stands as maybe the only great film by the director that I feel an unconscious crisis of... ... Full Article

Wasn't Stanley Spector supposed to post a review of it over the weekend?I got CASUALTIES OF WAR on DVD today and man, is that movie under-rated! ... Full Article

Hailed by critics as a masterpiece, CASUALTIES OF WAR is based on the true story of a squad of soldiers caught in the moral quagmire of wartime Vietnam. ... Full Article