My Lai Four

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

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.

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.

Very unrealistic movie, can't even get the service right, at one point one of the soldiers says they are marines. Anyone that was there knows all the screaming that is used as a backdrop making the soldiers seem like a bunch of whimpering children never took place, nor did I see anything like this in any of my three trips to nam. Tactically the movie has it all wrong, no one would drop in place during a mortar attack and then bunch up in a bomb crater. Correct procedure is to move out of the kill zone and stay at least 5 meters apart. Uniforms are wrong. Complete uniforms with steel pots were required. No one went on a mission wearing boonie hats and no shirts. All of this took place in the first couple minutes of the film at which point I quit watching it. Thought it would be a documentary instead of pure fiction.

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.