The Green Berets Reviews

A lifeless, unengaging, dull and (obviously) heavily biased piece of Vietnam propaganda. It starts off well with the journalists questioning the soldiers about America's involvement in the war, but it soon descends into one unexciting action scene after another with John Wayne in a typical role. I've got to give credit to Raymond St. Jacques, Bruce Cabot, Jim Hutton and David Janssen for trying to inject some life into the film but they are just as forgettable. Poor old George Takei is once again cast simply for being Asian, but he does a decent job of his role as a badass "VC" killer. Alas, he needed more screentime to excell. The child actors are excellent but are undermined by the "this war is all about you" bias.

"I've directed two pictures and I gave the blacks their proper position. I had a black slave in The Alamo, and I had a correct number of blacks in The Green Berets." - A quote which sums up why I've never been a fan of John Wayne.

Awful.

1/5