Due to low budget caracterizes this vietnam war -film, unfortunately. i dont think american spruce and sitka-fur is an invasive spiecie in south east indochina, but all the battle scenes are recoded in an environment like this. there a loadss of others, but i leave them for you to find, its like a game of ''spot the ball'' that had a feverish popularity in european media in the predigital age.

well its the story of 3 buddy boys of latino, puerto rican, and a hint of italian genealogy, growing up in new york city in the 60's, being drafted invoulantarily into freedom fighters for the saigon government of vietnam, and to surpress the evolving and enerving development of communism in the region.

its the story told basicly postwar, where the lives as vietnam vets feels far worse then fighting the nims, and where desperation and depression decides how to maintain life in the years thereafter.

i did like the start of the film when the boys where kids, thats the most and only promising part of the flick, but it soon becomes so close-up cameraangles of dpressed, sour and desperate facial looks and the dialouges are so monotone and stury as lichen on a rock, that you will be in danger of falling of the wagon of emancipation and the emotional gunfire becomes too boring to overcome. the actors does their job pretty well and fair, but the script and storyline is meant to be teardripping and therefore no chance of overly engaged acting.

productionwise, ive mentioned use of cam, and the sound quality and soundmix dialouges/musical score are at times of bad quality. ''youve got tinnitus'' , you might say, and yes, i do, but this is something else.also repeated use of clips troughout the movie have a tiring tendency, but there arent to many glitches on the 1960-70's time realism.

well, making a war movie needs budget, thats for sure, and my thought is that the vietnam war is timed out, after all its almost 45 years since it ended, and most veterans have subsided due to age , lifestyles that doesnt prolong life and suicide and the hardcore of survivers are subdued these days(2020) caused by a certain viral disease. on the bottom you might find a little cry of racism debating the backlog. but thats the thoughts of a grumpy old man. just dont raise your flags of glory until youve seen this, cause its viewable,but it doesnt engage fierce feelings.a small recommend

Bad budget, bad actors, bad story, bad everything... Don't watch it!

I knew what I was getting when I signed up to watch this. A low budget war film about ptsd and I feel you get that ok.

However the plot was a bit messy in places and the main characters decisions didn't really make sense (why not take the gold bars when he robs the place).

Some of it is really really decent - soundtrack and some of the shots however it gets cancelled out with some of the cringy script.

The sex scene came out of nowhere and was quite uncomfortable. And I felt like the ages of the characters didn't add up (how old was his son at the end?!)

Mediocre low budget.