Hamburger Hill
HAMBURGER HILL (18)
D: John Irvin
RKO (Marcia Nasatir)
US 1987
110 mins
War
W: Jim Carabatsos
DP: Peter MacDonald
Ed: Peter Tanner
Mus: Philip Glass
Tegan West (Terry Eden), Steven Weber (Dennis
Worcester), Dylan McDermott (Adam Frantz), Don James (Elliott McDaniel), Courtney B. Vance (Abraham 'Doc' Johnson), Don Cheadle (David Washburn)
Conventional war movie about a rookie platoon on duty
in Vietnam, charged with the mission of taking the hill of the title.
A rather run-of-the-mill plot is set aside from
mundanity by good direction from John Irvin, making the film a metaphor for pointless obsession in the name of duty rather than just another standard routine flagwaver.
7/10
