As first reviewer says, an unusual and absorbing story. Unusual in that it's nuanced. Americans are not depicted with anger, despite only four years' passage since the war's end in 1975. Also, prominent role of women, and one heroine in particular, which actually is not unusual in Red China war movies of this period, though they tend to be propagandistic, and these Vietnamese picture is not propaganda, unless The Longest Day is. Straightforward depiction of what the VC had to do, and the Yanks as well. As a battle film, excellent in showing the effective VC guerilla tactics, rising up from the rice paddies to shoot down huge Huey choppers whose crews couldn't possibly see the enemy below. You get a sense of the futility of the U.S. military mission, and also the acute vulnerability of the Vietnamese population. The horrors of war, with no ideology. Well done. D.O., Toronto