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
The Green Berets war movie
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The Green Berets war movie
Czas: 140 minut
1970-01-01 / 1970-01-01
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
