My Lai Four

The actual massacre of My Lai Four, is one of the most photographed and documented acts of genocide (during wartime) but this Italian 'Nam' film is a bit of an atrocity in itself. Certainly a missed opportunity to address what was possibly, the darkest stain on US military history and almost an insult to those ill-fated souls who perished. A case of a grade A war-crime, dealt with in a C grade movie. This story needs to be told by a director like Oliver Stone.

Just been on vacation to Vietnam and visited the My Lai memorial,a deeply moving experience.

In my opinion, this was a cheap and nasty attempt to recreate the story of the massacre.

I hated the attempts to 'Hollywoodize' the story.

There were feeble attempts to introduce a fictional love story which just cheapened the whole story.

Most of the time, the villagers sounded more American than the Americans, except when they suddenly switched to Vietnamese for no apparent reason!

The standard of acting was appalling and wooden. The dialogue was inane and most of the effects were pathetic.

This film is an insult to the people who died at My Lai. One to avoid.

If it's one thing I dislike it's an interesting and important story being used up in bad films. Movie Executives are going to look at this failure and tell anyone else trying to do their take on this story that it will not be popular enough and that it has failed in the past.

The My Lai Massacre took place in 1968. This movie was made in 2011. That is 44 years before ANYBODY had the balls to make a movie on the subject. The closest being Ralph Nelson's Soldier Blue, which suffered from a bad music soundtrack. Oliver Stone was going to do this, then switched to Charles Manson. Rob Zombie is doing a modern day "Salem Witch Coven" movie. Tarantino is making another "Hostel". I read Sam Peckinpah considered doing a movie about this in 1970, but quickly backed out. The most evil thing to me is that the few guys in the platoons involved who refused to fire were later outed and targeted as cowards and traitors and dead animals were left on their doorsteps. There was and is a psychotic element in America who still thinks William Laws Calley Jr was an American hero. This movie says he wasn't. I saw it on another site with Vietnamese subtitles. Obviously they appreciated it. The film is sloppy and tame but it still has balls. Not bad for an Italian cable film.

All the Reviews are correct its a very poor movie I've seen better low budget movies than this , although its a sad story based on real events that took place during the Vietnam War in march 1968 but technical wise - Bad Miming , voices did not match the American Soldiers, bad acting , i could of acted better myself and very bad effects and yes the part where the American Soldier was screaming "my leg my leg" was very amateur so i was glad when he got blew up, parts of the movie i couldn't tell if the U.S Troops had English accents or American lol , I would just read up on the real events of My Lai Four rather than watching this very badly made movie i give maybe 2 out of 10