Halcones de fuego

Of all the countless Vietnam war movies made by cult director Cirio Santiago this is by far the best and most intelligent.

It's basically "The Cube" in the jungle:

Five very different people are put in an unexpected life threatening situation they need to master together without any help from outside. The similarities to the characters in "The Cube" are stunning: The authority figure who takes responsibility and suddenly turns bad, the medic and "peace protester", the outsider,... and as a replacement for the maze of cubes there's a dense jungle filled with booby traps and deadly enemies.

If you liked "The Cube" you'll love this extremely well though out and executed low budget movie.

Although the filming of this picture looks low budget, the story and characters are great. I really enjoyed trying to guess who the traitor in the group was. I rate this one in my top ten Corman pictures and believe me I've seen them all.

The setting of this movie is the Vietnam War, but the content has not much to do with the Vietnam War. Everyone with any military knowledge will have pains about the way the present military matters.

It was designed to be more a psycho-thriller, but honestly it is so unrealistic and low-quality it is just boring.

And the character-study thing is much too constructed to be of any interest.

To make matters worst, the DVD is a ultra-low-cost product one can't enjoy on monitors with a higher resolution.

Save your money and time and forget this movie.