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A military history expert gives low marks for realism toMichael J. Fox ’s Vietnam War movie . Fox starred opposite Sean Penn in Brian De Palma ’s Vietnam epic , which told the harrowing true news report of an incident in which a Vietnamese fair sex was raped and hit by a squad of American soldiers . Released amid the Vietnam War movie bonanza of the recent ‘ 80s , the intensely dramatic film was a corner office loser , grossing just $ 18 million on a budget of $ 22 million .
Fox’sCasualties of Warmay indeed have been too harrowing for audiences in 1989 , and concord to an expert , it is n’t particularly realistic either . In a telecasting forInsider , military chronicle professor Bill Allison break down a successiveness from De Palma ’s flick , with an eye toward its delineation of span guarding , and found the flick lacking , giving it just 4 - out - of-10 for naive realism . Check out his remarks below ( around 13:20 of the clip ):
Guarding bridge , very common . You often had US , ARVN [ The Army of the Republic of Vietnam ] forces on either side of a bridge over a river or a railway system bridgework to protect it . Unless you want that bridge destroyed . I ’m not sure you could be much more display than being on a railway bridge deck .
This is based on a real incident . A building block murdered a new cleaning lady who they had abduct and raped . regrettably in Vietnam , as is the causa in passably much all war , soldiers do mistreat noncombatant . There are a few units that were ill-famed for their discussion of noncombatants .
And right on pool cue , here comes your air power , which , I ’m not sure those explosion would ’ve been that way . Now , there you see an American river patrol gravy holder gets in the fashion and gets hit by confirmatory damage there . That would ’ve been pretty common for a river patrol boat . We had what we called riverine force . So these patrol boats would ’ve been going up and down the major waterway .
I do n’t think it ’s the well tariff to have because you ’re out there and you ’re expose . Now , these things are armoured - plate . They ’ve got some protection , but you ’re really exposed out there , open to ambuscade from either side of the river and thing like that . So it was passably dangerous duty .
I go ta rate this one probably a four , because there ’s just so much of it that ’s just not good .
Casualties Of War Took Fox Out Of His Comfort Zone (And Audiences Didn’t Like It)
Fox ’s period of play for prestige motion-picture show legitimacy did n’t work on out , however . critic said he was miscast inCasualties of War , playing opposite a heavy - hitter like Penn . audience were n’t any more eager than critics to comprehend theMarty McFlyactor taking on meatier dramatic roles , and Fox seemed to get the message , as he quickly looped back to doing drollery , fellowship films and generally light menu .
Casualties of Waris available to watch on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV .
ThoughCasualties of Warwas a loser at the box office , it does have its champions , especially among those who look up to De Palma and his cinematic expressive style . When it comes to realistically depicting the dangers of warfare , at least one expert believes the film fell short .
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