Not my genre really these shoddy fillipino war flicks, but this one was odd enough to be entertaining as trash. A sad Rambo-wannabe sergeant with an effeminate voice goes on a mission that my brain failed to register, probably to blow some secret Vietcong stuff up or something. Once into the sweaty vietnamese jungle we get a super-high bodycount, gore, nasty jungle traps and idiotic dialogue, i.e the usual stuff, but this movie is grittier, schlockier and more primitive than your usual Rambo knock-off. Also worth mentioning is that this movie has some strong racist tendencies, against the vietnamese as expected (they are seen slaughtering live animals and dancing around in primitive voodoo-style) but also against jive-talking ("dubber-on-crack" jive) black solider, who was so much a racist stereotype you half expected him to show up eating watermelons and doing Chris Rock impressions. Since this film is pure trash that nobody can take seriously it only added to the fun for me. "Dedicated to The Duke and all the boys who served in 'Nam"!! :)
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oraklon17 April 2009
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artpf29 October 2013Fillipino war flick with a captain who actually says "bone swar" when he's introduced to the tribesman! Not sure why he's talking French to clearly fillinos when it's Viet Nam that was over come by French, but OK roll with it. Although absurdly cheaply made, the movie is oddly watchable.
A sad Rambo-wannabe sergeant with an effeminate voice goes on a mission tho not exactly sure that's ever explained. Once into the hot Vietnamese jungle we get a super-high body count, gore, nasty jungle traps and idiotic dialog, i.e the usual stuff, but this movie is grittier, schlockier and more primitive than your usual Rambo knock-off. -
Cashing in on the success of Vietnam war movies, this one is a real stinker. The casting is terrible (everyone sleepwalks through their roles), the dialogue is atrocious, the dubbing is ridiculous (why would you allow such an effeminate voice-over for your lead killer?) and once you see a POW get shot in the forehead all he does is blink and stare back at the camera...well, if you can make it past the first 20 minutes of this filth you are a better person than I. The only reason to give more than one star to this is that the director and producers actually have a few moments that prove they cared at least somewhat in making a decent movie on such a low budget, unfortunately no one ON camera gave two donkey balls about carrying out whatever minimal hope there was to make a decent war movie. I'll watch bad movies anytime of the week, except for this. Do not bother to seek it out unless you love 5th generation knock-offs of Platoon and any other vastly superior Vietnam War movie. And that's including every single one made by Chuck Norris as well.
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HaemovoreRex4 August 2006Whilst obviously shot on a mere fraction of the budget of such classic Vietnam films from the 1980's as Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and Oliver Stone's Platoon and although sadly virtually unheard of, this movie nonetheless represents an incredible achievement for its makers.
The story concerns an allied mission to destroy a radar installation somewhere along the Ho Chi Min trail (the Crossbone Territory of the films title). The mission turns out to be a success but returning to their hill top base proves to be well nigh impossible as the team are pursued incessantly by entire squadrons of hostile VC forces. With casualties and fatalities mounting by the minute and air lift attempts failing our rapidly depleting group must fight for their lives to make it back to safety.
The action sequences here are excellent. Never glorifying, the action is shown to be gritty and brutal with numerous fire fights and subsequent deaths on both sides. In fact the gun fire seldom lets up here as our heroes desperately retreat.
Amazingly, against all probability a few do make it back to base but any hopes of salvation turn out to be cruelly dashed as with the location of the base now discovered, the VC launch a multiple squadron, all out full frontal attack upon it.
With the odds now insurmountably against them, our heroes stage one last desperate pitched battle but is there any real hope?
This scene serves as the climax of the movie and is absolutely spectacular. Not since the incredible battle scenes in the classic Zulu have I ever seen such a similarly awesome sequence. In fact the scene actually resembles that from Zulu in many ways, not least of all the incessant, huge waves of attackers that fill the screen (filmed on wide angle lenses) as they charge towards their intended target.
In light of the above and despite some instances of intrusive background music and what appears to be a poor overdub throughout, this film truly is a forgotten classic and I strongly urge all fans of the war genre to get hold of a copy. -
lancelrd3 June 2022I'm going to say this could be the best B-movie about the special force operation in vietnam war.
I've seen a lot a of teddy page movies they are good however not reasonable but just action and explosives. Back to Crossbone Territory, it is a short simply but hard core action movie. Story is the a team of MACV-SOG go into jungle near Hu chi Minh trail to destroy a VC radar station in Laos. The jungle battle nearly 60% of the movie! And the shootout scene are not Rambo style with oneman standing there to output unlimited bullets.... It is chase and run in jungle, you can see some magazine change and search ammo a from dead. You also have the deadly trap of bamboo. These are nice! The 12 men team finally have 2 back to base camp. I camp is mentioned as Lang vei, the special force Base in 1698. The in the end it become a great history show of Lang Vei battle. The US special force and mercenaries defending VC attack and almost all killed until the chopper air support come in.
This movie almost use all the budget in war scene and it is a real action movie. If you like jungle action and special force movie, you gonna have this one!