I love this movie so much

Instant Favorite.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Few films have managed to capture the horrors of the Vietnam War as accurately as Hamburger Hill in terms of real history. Inspired by an actual battle that in many aspects typifies the entire conflict, John Irvin brings to life the brutal realities of combat. Carefully weaving in social commentary while at the same time not shying away from gruelling scenes of battle, this film stands above many others in its genre.

I remember my Father making me watch "Platoon" when I was younger to show me and a friend of mine that war was not a good thing or a "cool" thing. I believe he got his point across quite effectively as it shows what war is like to a certain degree. Although I find "Platoon" a great movie I still much prefer "Hamburger Hill" for some reason, I have never been to war and hope I never do but to hear vets say that this movie gets it right where so many others haven't is a statement I would agree with whole heartedly. Like I said I've never been but the realism and the insanity of war oozes out in this film and it seems more genuine then the rest. The scenes of friendly fire and the men slipping down the muddy hill, so close to victory and yet so far from the end are especially powerful to me and although it's just a movie it seem very real and leaves you cringing and uncomfortable in some moments and laughing and smiling in others. It seems absolutely crazy to lose so many good men to gain one muddy hill out in the middle of Vietnam, but when they do it makes you feel like that was everything...to them and to the ones who never made it to the top.

This is an '80s style war movie where the focus is on the individual soldier instead of the war itself. There's another war movie that''s similar in this respect from the '80s called the "Full Metal Jacket".Although the movie depicts the worst battle, it's the characters of each man that gives this story the meaning. What happens to each of them, you need to see the movie, but it will keep you interested for the entire course of the film.The movie shows what happens to the recruits during and after the by then hugely unpopular war in Viet Nam. United States had no moral reasons to be there, and the modus operandi was not acceptable to the generally middle class Americans. The brutality of the combat, and the sentiment of the society plus the mindset of each solider forms an interesting landscape of the movie.In this sense, this is one of a kind movie on Viet Nam war. The conflict to the soldiers were not only external but also internal. Good movie that has meaning to those who were there and those who stayed behind.

It has been a while that I saw Platoon, Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. Movies that apparently are often used as a comparison in judging this movie. I read a lot of veterans say that this is the most realistic one out of the bunch. Knowing little about the reality of it i cant judge it on realistic criteria. Only things that came off a little bit unrealistic were an exploding head and the "firework". The rest was quite horrific, and i am sure thats what war is. But a movie should have more to offer then realism, and that is where the movie failed a bit. It just had little impact on me. The soldiers in this movie showed too little of themselves before and between battle to get me emotionally involved. In the dying finale on the hill i even had problems distinguishing one dying soldier from the other. It now felt as a final episode of a series which earlier episodes i missed out on.Apart from that i noticed discussion about whether this is an anti-war movie or not. The horror speaks for itself. Do you think it's worth it?? I don't. Of course most soldiers are not happy with press hanging around the spectacle while their comrades are dying off, or for antiwar protesters for that matter. But that seems a logical perspective to me once you are out there fighting and doing your job. offtopic: Not only in this movie, but also other stuff i watched and read about Vietnam i have gotten the image that amongst warprotestors soldiers were harassed once returning. I have also demonstrated a lot against military involvement of my country. But pointing fingers at soldiers is just screwed up. Then, as an anti-war protester, you seriously don't get it.