The Green Berets (1968, United States)
Categories: commandos movies helicopter movies infantry movies jungle movies military base movies
The Green BeretsDirector: John Wayne, Ray Kellogg
Czas: 140 minut
Laguages: English / Vietnamese
Categories: commandos movies helicopter movies infantry movies jungle movies military base movies
The Green BeretsDirector: John Wayne, Ray Kellogg
Laguages: English / Vietnamese
American Green Berets fly to a jungle to help defend the base and if possible kill the Viet Cong general.
Colonel Kirby is appointed to pick the team of Green Beret commandos and take them on a mission in South Vietnam. Their first aim is to build and defend a camp on the remote jungle spot surrounded by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese army. But the second part of the mission is much harder - to go behind the enemy lines and kidnap a North Vietnamese general.
War movie directed by John Wayne and made while the Vietnam War was still on. It is affected by Wayne’s views on war - despite all the protests surrounding the Vietnam War Wayne made it as a praise to American involvement in war and to justify the involvement. And unfortunately it was made really heavy handed - parts of the movie seems like a propaganda flick made by completely brainwashed amateur.
To put politics aside The Green Berets as a war movie has some good parts and some bad parts - it isn’t particularly inventive nor realistic. Simple story made in almost western-like style, filmed in American forests that look nothing like the jungles of South-East Asia.
Our rating
4.4
Film value
4 / 10
Realism factor
2 / 5
Adventure factor
3 / 5
Historical accuracy
2 / 5
John Wayne
director
Ray Kellogg
director
James Lee Barrett
screenplay
Robin Moore
screenplay
John Wayne
as Col. Mike Kirby
Aldo Ray
as Sgt. Muldoon
Jim Hutton
as Sgt. Petersen
Raymond St. Jacques
as Sgt. Doc McGee
Bruce Cabot
as Col. Morgan
Jack Soo
as Col. Cai
George Takei
as Capt. Nim
Patrick Wayne
as Lt. Jamison
Luke Askew
as Sgt. Provo
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