Nhung Nguoi Viet Huyen Thoai

The uniforms were correct the weapons were correct, but like the other user review mentioned they didn't have much dirt on them.

This is set during the Vietnam war between the NVA forces the ARVN South Vietnamese American forces. But there's no Americans in the movie probably due to the budget as it's a Vietnam produced movie.

It follows one NVA officer and one NVA enlisted man through the battle. The cinematography is good the acting is good. The problem is the pacing, it jumps around a lot between characters, and action scenes are almost presented like a B horror movie. Lots of spoonfed emotion, and overly dramatic soundtrack.

I would recommend Song of the stork for a Vietnam produced war movie, it is a little bit more realistic. Or Cyclo. Sometimes less is more.

This movie is still watchable there's lots of action and turned up drama to keep you through it. But sometimes it gets downright silly, or on the level of Michael Bay style action, for a movie supposed to be set on the war.

Well, you have to give credit to writer Nguyen Anh Dung and director Bui Tuan Dung for setting out on a quest to make a war movie.

And there were both good aspects and bad aspects to the movie titled "Nhung Nguoi Viet Huyen Thoai" (aka "The Legend Makers").

First of all, the title. There was nothing grand about this storyline, much less of legend making. So I have to admit that I was rather disappointed with the events that transpired on the screen. Especially since the storyline seemed erratic and mostly as if it was filmed as director Bui Tuan Dung was filming. There was no proper red thread throughout the course of this movie, nor any particular coherent storyline.

Visually then there were good things to be said about "Nhung Nguoi Viet Huyen Thoai", because parts of the battles actually had enough intensity and authenticity to it to make it watchable. Thumbs up on the props and wardrobe department, though the uniforms didn't really have much of any dirt on them.

For a war movie, then "Nhung Nguoi Viet Huyen Thoai" wasn't really impressive. And it was a rather difficult movie to sit through. And truth be told, then I gave up on the movie about 30 minutes into the ordeal. By then I just couldn't sit through any more of non-existing storyline and the random confusion of scenes pieced together by haphazard luck. And it didn't help one bit that I didn't even know who the main character of the story was.

I virtually don't know whom the fighting forces were, I assume that one group was the Viet Cong, and maybe the others were supposed to be Americans, though they didn't speak, were all Vietnamese actors, though they wore American gear. It just made no sense and had zero credibility to it.

And I have no intention of returning to attempt to finish watching "Nhung Nguoi Viet Huyen Thoai", because it just simply wasn't worth the effort.

My rating of "Nhung Nguoi Viet Huyen Thoai" lands on a two out of ten stars.