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Casualties of War (1989)
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Based on a true story, this Brian De Palma film casts Michael J. Fox as a soldier in Vietnam in a squad led by Sean Penn. While on patrol, in the wake of an ambush that has left friends dead, they kidnap and rape a Vietnamese woman--then murder her. But Fox, one of the soldiers who refused to participate in the rape, is so appalled by the killing that he reports it--and finds himself being treated as the villain. Penn is scarily tough as the vindictive soldier and De Palma does a solid job of re-creating the crime, making it a thing of horror. Yet this film never quite connects, despite a strong performance by Fox and a supporting cast that...
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| Casualties of War Movie Review by Jarrod (10/14/2009) |
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'Casualties of War' achieves that primal, visceral effect; while not as universally acclaimed as Oliver Stone's Platoon, or Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, or Apocalypse Now, Brian De Palma's devastating drama captures the essence of war's ruinous impact on the human psyche, how it compels us to revert to our most...
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