Ari C

This movie really rubbed me the wrong way. This does not feel like the anti-war movie its made out to be, and although it comes from the black American's perspective, they should've been able to do that without dehumanizing Vietnamese people. They had the nerve to use real footage of the Vietnam war for shock value and then proceed to make most of the Vietnamese characters feel at best like NPCs, at worst like funny foreign people. At first I was confused, because how could you be pro-black and anti-asian? That doesn't make sense to me. Being white, I looked inside myself first and was like, "is this a me problem? Am I the one viewing these people badly?" But scenes that depicted Vietnamese people being overly sensitive, violent gangsters felt like less of a me-problem and more of the movie writer's problem. This movie can occasionally be funny and smart. You might enjoy small bits of it. But its not worth the overall very poor handling of very serious topics. It's not quite progressive, and definitely not BLM. It's made to be a fun experience for anyone who is partial to punching-down comedy and insinuations disguised as progressiveness. Makes me feel sick every time I think about it.