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"GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM" (1987) (Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker) (R) QUICK TAKE: Comedy-Drama: An Air Force radio DJ previously stationed in Crete is assigned to Vietnam to entertain the soldiers, but his superiors aren't as wild about him as his listeners. PLOT: It's 1965 and Adrian Cronauer (ROBIN WILLIAMS), an Air Force radio DJ previously stationed in Crete, arrives in Vietnam to host a radio show, unconventional by the standards so far set by Captain Hauk (BRUNO KIRBY), a humorless man who sees himself as funny. Where programs before Cronauer's arrival have included selections from Lawrence Welk and the Benny Goodman Orchestra, to name a few, Cronauer programs quick-witted comedy and rock 'n roll music. He lampoons government officials, and points out some of the absurdities of the war, such as the uniforms worn by the soldiers. They love him for all that he brings when he's on the air at 4 a.m., and 4 p.m. But Adrian's exposure to Vietnam goes beyond Radio Saigon, as he becomes attracted to a Vietnamese woman (CHINTARA SUKAPATANA) and right then and there, decides to teach her English class, and become friends with her brother (TUNG THANH TRAN). All the while, the man in charge of overseeing Cronauer's antics, Sergeant Major Dickerson (J.T. WALSH), doesn't like Cronauer one bit and is hell-bent on removing him from his post for good. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Fans of Robin Williams will definitely want to see it. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R No official reason is given, but it's likely for language, violence and sexually related material. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: ROBIN WILLIAMS plays Adrian Cronauer, assigned to Vietnam and Radio Saigon to provide entertainment for the troops, but does more than that as he becomes the voice of the soldiers who can't speak outright in a war zone, but feel exactly what he speaks. He witnesses rampant racism in Vietnam, sees what the war is actually doing to the populace, and is attracted to a Vietnamese woman, and becomes friends with her brother. He uses strong language, and drinks and appears drunk at one point. FOREST WHITAKER plays Edward Garlick, assigned to assist Adrian with whatever he needs for his show. He at first seems too formal, but quickly grows warm to the energy field that is Adrian and even demonstrates some humor of his own. He also is the one who finds a way to bring Adrian back up from the dumps he's in after he's suspended from a few broadcasts, and at first uses strong language to do so. CHINTARA SUKAPATANA plays Trinh, a Vietnamese woman Adrian's smitten enough with to take over her English class and try to get her attention. She's initially not responsive to him, but soon gets to know him, and even though it's a start, it's not enough to overcome the differences between his nationality and culture and hers. TUNG THANH TRAN plays Tuan, Trinh's brother who tells Adrian to back off since he's not the type of man for her. He believes that he's only teaching the English class to try to win her over and when he doesn't, he'll leave. But he doesn't leave and becomes friends with Tuan, who eventually sets him up on a date with Trinh, which in Vietnam, involves the entire family. He uses strong language, and becomes pivotal toward the end of the film. BRUNO KIRBY plays Lieutenant Steven Hauk, a man of no humor, who believes he has some and is capable of being funny, but demonstrates that he has no chance of ever cracking a joke like Adrian and being successful at it. He doesn't recognize the comedy that Adrian engages in, nor can tell when sarcasm is being used. He doesn't like at all what Adrian is doing and suggests ways in which to change it, ways which aren't worth it to Adrian, so he just takes Hauk's thoughts as soon as he's heard them and dumps them to the side. Hauk's disastrous attempts at humor are demonstrated when he goes on the air in place of Adrian. J.T. WALSH plays Sergeant Major Dickerson, who despises Adrian as soon as he meets him. He doesn't like how Adrian dresses, how he speaks, and how he addresses him. He makes it his ultimate mission to dismiss Adrian from his post as a radio DJ so that the station can go back to being what it always was, and broadcasting what he believes troops should be listening to. He goes so far as to put Adrian in mortal danger. He uses strong language and smokes once. NOBLE WILLINGHAM plays General Taylor, who ordered Adrian to Vietnam because he heard his show in Crete and liked him so much, that he believed Adrian could do a better job entertaining the soldiers in Vietnam. As much as Lieutenant Hauk and Sergeant Major Dickerson express their strongest wishes for Adrian to be sent anywhere else, far enough away from Vietnam, Taylor won't even consider it, even when Adrian makes the mistake of reading a news story as written and not in a censored format. He curses a few times. ROBERT WUHL plays Marty Lee Dreiwitz, a fellow disc jockey and huge fan of Cronauer and what he brings to the station. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? Then read OUR TAKE of this film. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). OUR WORD TO PARENTS: The following is a brief summary of the content found in this R-rated comedy-drama. Profanity consists of at least 15 "f" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are uttered. There's sexually related dialogue and humor, while some women are seen in revealing attire and some men are seen shirtless. Violence includes explosions, a shooting death and a physical fight in a bar that damages property. The aftermath of those explosions have deadly bloody results. Some of those scenes might be unsettling to some viewers. Various characters have varying degrees of disrespect and bad attitudes, and characters smoke and drink, and one character in particular appears drunk, while other potentially imitative behavior is present. Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. For those prone to visually induced motion sickness, a protest-related clash has some shaky camerawork. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE A lyric from "Dream On Little Dreamer" by Perry Como is heard: "Dream about a love so fine, sweet as apple-berry wine." Commenting on Radio Saigon's next song selection, Adrian says, "They play Mantovani to insomniacs who don't respond to strong drugs." Dickerson asks Adrian what kind of uniform he's wearing, since it's not standard issue, and Adrian replies, "Cretan camouflage. If you want to blend into a crowd of drunken Greeks, there's nothing better." One of the record turntables runs slowly at first, so Adrian imitates someone speaking very slowly and says about the music, "For those of you who are recovering from a hangover, that's gonna sound just right." About Jimmy Wah's, Adrian comments, "Real homey, in an opium kind of way." At Jimmy Wah's, one guy drinks from a glass as Adrian walks in, and another guy holds a beer bottle. Jimmy says to Adrian and Garlick, "Hey, you two Earl. What about couple beer?" Garlick responds, "We'd love a couple of beers, Jimmy." The bar at Jimmy Wah's has lots of bottles on the shelves behind it. Jimmy hands Garlick and Adrian two beer bottles with glasses on top. Jimmy tells Adrian, "Ba Muy Ba beer best beer in Vietnam." Garlick counters, "Ba Muy Ba beer only beer in Vietnam." Adrian and Garlick drink from their glasses and Adrian is surprised by the taste. Jimmy explains that there's just a "touch of formaldehyde" in the beer for flavor. Garlick drinks a second time from his glass. Dreiwitz and other men hold beer bottles as he introduces them to Adrian. Garlick drinks from a glass at the table. To try to deflect a fight, Adrian says to the two racist servicemen, "Now come on. Let me buy you a couple of beers. How 'bout it?" A beer bottle sits in front of Jimmy. Part of the scuffle causes a table to bounce up, and a bottle of beer and a glass of beer fall to the floor and break. A lyric from "Sugar and Spice" by The Searchers is heard: "Sugar and spice and all things nice. Kisses sweeter than wine." Adrian says to Trinh that she's very quiet. "I'm not used to girls being that quiet unless they're medicated." Looking at the news being printed out over one of the newswires, Adrian says, "Jesus, you could put amphetamine freaks to sleep with this sh*t." Two soldiers sitting outside, across from a hotel, have beer bottles with them, and one guy holds his beer bottle. A beer bottle and a glass little over halfway filled with beer sits to the left of Adrian at the bar. Adrian edits himself into a tape of Nixon's press conference, making it seem like he's interviewing the former vice president and he asks Nixon, "…while you've been in Vietnam, it's rumored that you smoked marijuana. Are you planning, sir, to take some of the marijuana back home, back to the United States? How would you do that?" Nixon answers, "Plane, helicopter, and also by automobile." Adrian drinks from a glass of beer while reading a newspaper. Tuan asks him why he's still there and he answers, "Sparky. Just sittin' back, havin' a cup of formaldehyde." Tuan tells Adrian that the owner of the bar says he's drunk too much already and tries to get him up, saying, "You will get sick if you drink some more. Come on." During this, Adrian holds a beer bottle and just as he's going to drink more, Tuan tells him that he could meet Trinh, and Adrian puts down the bottle and says, "I'll drive." Jimmy Wilkes says that he's also from New York, just like Patrick O'Malley, and Adrian exclaims, "Oh! Two boys joined together." He then imitates Jimmy's deep voice: "Well, I got drunk, man, all of a sudden I went for a tattoo; the next thing you know, I'm on a f*ckin' truck." About the hit he makes in softball, Adrian asks, "Was that a double or a daiquiri?" BLOOD/GROSS STUFF Looking at the news being printed out over one of the newswires, Adrian comments, "An agreement on Guam? Sounds like bird droppings." In the aftermath of the explosion at Jimmy Wah's, a man, possibly dead, lies on the ground with blood on his chest. A woman has blood on her leg and on her dress, and another woman wearing blue earrings runs out with streaks of blood on the left side of her face. One serviceman is carried out by two others, his shirt is torn open, and there's blood all over his body. A few people lie dead, but only their feet are seen and no blood is shown. One man lies dead with blood and water soaked through his shirt, and Adrian helps carry that man elsewhere. A Vietnamese boy pees on the ground in the village, and his effort is seen. While shaving, there are two nicks seen on Adrian's neck. A bloody sandal is seen on the street, as well as a small pool of blood nearby. One woman has blood on her forehead and near her left eye. Dickerson shows a monochromatic photo to Adrian of three dead Vietnamese men, and one has a streak of blood on his white shirt, while another has blood on both sides of his chest. DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE While Captain Hauk and Sergeant Major Dickerson are both displeased with the kind of person Adrian is and how he presents himself on the radio, Dickerson is the one with the biggest grudge against him. Toward the end of the movie, he tells Adrian straight out, "I don't like your style, your politics, or your sense of humor. I don't like what you say or how you say it." But long before that, he tries to convince his superior, General Taylor to remove Adrian from his position, but Taylor likes Adrian and tells Dickerson in so many words to live with it. Dickerson shows his contempt for Adrian full blast when he comes to the station from the bombing of Jimmy Wah's and Dickerson tells him that he can't read that news on the air because it isn't official, "therefore it didn't happen." Adrian reads that news anyway and Taylor orders Adrian suspended for that action, believing it simply to be a mistake of telling the truth. Dickerson's true colors of his dislike toward Adrian show vividly when he gets Adrian sent to An Lac through a route that's been deemed hazardous for 48 hours. Adrian's nearly killed by Dickerson's actions when the jeep he and Garlick are in flips over from an exploded landmine. Those responsible for bombings and such obviously have bad attitudes. Hauk suggests to Adrian that they could get together some night and "swap humorous stories for fun." Adrian responds, "Why not? Maybe play a couple of Tennessee Ernie Ford records. That'd be a hoot." Hauk, looking a little miffed, asks Adrian, "That's a joke, right?" "Maybe," Adrian replies. Dickerson is annoyed at Adrian addressing him as "Sir," and says, "Sir? I work for a living," implying that what he does is on a higher plane than Adrian's work. After Hauk leaves the room, Adrian says, "Oh, what a dip." One of the servicemen at the bar asks Adrian and the guys at the table, "Who brought in the gook?" When they don't answer, he asks, "Who brought in the f*ckin' gook?" Adrian tells the man and the guy with him that "if you kick out the gooks next, then you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks and kikes, and all that's going to be left are a couple of brain-dead rednecks." One of the men pushes Tuan down to the floor and Adrian says to the guy, "You gotta prove somethin', knocking around little Vietnamese kids here." One of the servicemen says to Adrian, "This is a GI bar. We don't like gooks, we don't want him here, you just get him out!" Adrian sarcastically says to Hauk (who doesn't recognize sarcasm), "Sir? Thank you for that constructive criticism. It's a privilege to take comedy notes from a man of your stature." Hauk replies, "Fine. Just don't let it happen again." After Hauk leaves, Adrian says to the guy manning the control board, "In the dictionary, under 'asshole,' it says "See 'him'." Adrian asks Garlick, "Is it me or is Jimmy light in the loafers?" (meaning "homosexual") Garlick replies, "Let me put it to you this way. He's got this thing for Walter Brennan….he says he wants to buy naked photographs of the actor. For three years, he's been trying." One of the servicemen at the bar taps the bare leg of a girl with a shapely behind in a short blue dress. Garlick asks the guy next to him, "Can you believe the shape of these gals…girls?" Adrian says to the group about the girls, "You know, those behinds were designed by a Jewish scientist in Switzerland; Dr. Feintush." Adrian edits himself into a tape of Richard Nixon's press conference in Vietnam, making it seem like he's asking the questions, and he asks the former vice president how he would describe his testicles, his sex life and asks how he plans to ship home marijuana. Adrian calls one of the twin brother censors "Tweedledee." FRIGHTENING SCENES Scenes listed under "Violence," "Blood/Gross Stuff" and "Jump Scenes" may be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to younger viewers and/or those with low tolerance levels for such material. GUNS/WEAPONS Rifles/machine guns/Explosives/Landmine/Helicopter: Carried and used to threaten and kill others and/or cause property damage. See "Violence" for details. We see a few boats on the water with men manning the guns onboard. Soldiers hold rifles as they walk out of a transport plane. A soldier holds a rifle as he walks over to a smoking car. Two soldiers hold rifles as they escort a Vietnamese guy into some hallway. Vietnamese men walk toward where Adrian and Garlick are, carrying machine guns. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR Phrases: "You shut your f*ckin' hole!" "So, f*ck it," "That's not the f*cking point!" "Big f*cking deal," "Where the f*ck you goin'?!" "Jesus, that guy's as boring as whale sh*t," "Sh*t!" "Eat a bag of sh*t," "That's some heavy sh*t goin' down," "Bullsh*t!" "Jesus, you could put amphetamine freaks to sleep with this sh*t," "You know, those behinds were designed by a Jewish scientist in Switzerland; Dr. Feintush," "If anything screws up, it's my ass in the mower," "I'm the tallest hog in the trough here," "But if you toy with me, I'll burn you so bad you'll wish you died as a child," "It's damn hot!" "Let's boogaloo till we puke," "Oh, what a dip," "Shut up!" "That's it for you, asshole!" "You better not even come within range of anything that happens, or your ass is grass and I'm a lawnmower," "Bag it!" "What the hell was that?" "In the dictionary, under 'asshole,' it says "See 'him'" "Lock-n-loll, baby," "What the hell's going on here?" "I said it's none of your g*ddamn business," "Break the g*ddamn door down," "The man is a g*ddamn subversive," "You suck," "What the hell's the holdup?" "Can't see d*ck," and "Boogaloo, boogaloo." Throughout the movie, Adrian imitates Elvis Presley, a slow and fast-playing record turntable, Rod Serling, Glinda the Good Witch, the Munchkins and the Wicked Witch from "The Wizard of Oz," President Lyndon Johnson, Gomer Pyle, Walter Cronkite, a news ticker, Ethel Merman, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Ed Sullivan, Elmer Fudd, a game show buzzer, George Wallace, a resident of Harlem, and Mick Jagger. He also creates a few characters, including Mr. Leo, a fashion consultant, and Roosevelt E. Roosevelt, who reports on the weather, but not when it's inconvenient. Adrian shouts, "Good morning Vietnam!", stressing a few of the syllables in the phrase each time. Dreiwitz's hysterical laughter may be tempting to imitate. Adrian weaves through heavy traffic on a bicycle to follow a girl, and Garlick struggles to catch up with him. Adrian teaches his English class about flipping someone the bird (the middle finger) if they have been cut off by another car, and nearly demonstrates it. Adrian asks Garlick, "What's that?" and points at his shirt. When Garlick looks down, Adrian brings his finger straight up to Garlick's nose. A drunken Adrian has prawns on his fingers, imitating Diana Ross and the Supremes, as the "Suprawns." One of the soldiers throws a condom to Adrian after he asks him what he's got on the side of his helmet, and Adrian uses it as a Bozo the Clown nose and impersonates an Italian moon launch, blowing up the condom and then letting it go. Adrian, smiling, makes a masturbation motion with his fist as the soldiers are transported away. A soldier riding away raises his fist to Adrian in appreciation. Adrian teaches his English class how to play softball and they use fruit as the ball, which smashes when they hit it with the bat. JUMP SCENES The noise of an airplane interrupts the radio announcer's spiel. Jimmy Wah's explodes behind Adrian and Tuan. MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) A moderate amount of tense music occurs in the film. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) A lyric from "Dream On Little Dreamer" by Perry Como is heard: "Dream about a love so fine, sweet as apple-berry wine." A lyric from "Sugar and Spice" by The Searchers is heard: "Sugar and spice and all things nice. Kisses sweeter than wine." PROFANITY At least 15 "f" words, 26 "s" words (4 used with "bull"), 4 slang terms for sex ("laid" and "score"), 1 slang term using male genitals ("d*ck"), 1 slang term using female genitals ("poontang"), 10 hells, 8 asses (3 used with "hole"), 8 craps, 3 damns, 1 S.O.B., 8 uses of "G-damn," 4 uses each of "Jesus" and "Oh, my God," 2 uses each of "God" and "Oh, God," and 1 use of "Good God." SEX/NUDITY After getting off the plane, a soldier, offscreen, asks, "Hey Sarge, where are the women?" Garlick tells Adrian everything there is to know about Sergeant Major Dickerson including that "he came to us because of….some sort of social infection that doesn't go away." The type of infection isn't specified. Adrian's alter ego on the radio, Roosevelt E. Roosevelt says that he's stationed in "Poontang," which is usually slang for a woman's genitals. As Roosevelt, Adrian says in response to a question about the night's weather, "It's gonna be hot and wet! That's nice if you're with a lady, but it ain't no good if you're in the jungle." Adrian gives the station's call letters, AFVN, and says, "Better than AFVD, which means you have to get a quick shot." Three little boys can be seen naked outside in a shower, and their genitals are seen. Adrian asks Garlick, "Is it me or is Jimmy light in the loafers?" (meaning "homosexual") Garlick replies, "Let me put it to you this way. He's got this thing for Walter Brennan….he says he wants to buy naked photographs of the actor. For three years, he's been trying." Trinh's brother Tuan, distrusting of Adrian, says to him that Americans, when they find a girl they like, "wine and dine her, lie about money, then try and take her into a bed." Garlick, looking at the girls at the bar, says, "I've…I'll never have them. I've always had trouble, especially as a young child." The guy next to him replies, "Who the hell gets laid as a young child?" One of the servicemen at the bar taps the bare leg of a girl with a shapely behind in a short blue dress. Garlick asks the guy next to him, "Can you believe the shape of these gals…girls?" The girl next to the one wearing a blue dress wears a purple dress that shows much leg. Adrian says to the group about the girls, "You know, those behinds were designed by a Jewish scientist in Switzerland; Dr. Feintush." After Adrian entices the two girls over to his table with cash, one sits in Dreiwitz's lap and the other sits in Garlick's lap. Adrian goes to Roosevelt E. Roosevelt for the weather and he says, "Adrian, I'm with somebody. Don't even come here and bother me right now." When Adrian presses further, Roosevelt fires back, "Not now, man. I'm on the balcony, I'm trying to score. Back off!" During the scenes shown of "Beach Blanket Bingo" in the Vietnamese cinema, Annette Funicello wears a swimsuit that shows some cleavage, and another girl wears a two-piece bathing suit that shows some cleavage, her bare midriff, and some leg. The men at the beach party are all shirtless. In another scene, Funicello shows a lot more cleavage and in the background of the same scene, there are many other girls wearing skimpy swimsuits. Adrian edits himself into a tape of Richard Nixon's press conference in Vietnam, making it seem like he's asking the questions. He asks Nixon how he would describe his testicles ("that they're soft, that they're shallow, that they have no purpose") and his sex life ("It is unexciting sometimes"). He also asks the former vice president if he's ever considered a sex change. A man in the village works bare-chested. A shirtless little boy runs after a chicken with a pipe. Adrian, doing live news for the soldiers, says, "Also, Gina Lollobrigida has been declared the Italian National Mountain Range." There are cheers from the men and Adrian puts his hands way out in front of his chest and says, "Look out. Look, I don't see the sun anymore." Adrian jokingly imitates Patrick O'Malley, a soldier, saying, "I'm just so full of semen. I haven't gotten laid yet. I'm the Catholic boy and I don't know when I'll be gettin' laid. I'm just goin' off to Vietnam." One of the soldiers throws a condom to Adrian after he asks him what's on the side of his helmet and Adrian uses it for a Bozo the Clown nose, and looks at the side, saying, "It says here what sizes you got. You got large, medium and Caucasian." He pushes the condom out a bit, holds it up and says, "Black man's goin' "It's just for the tip. That's all I need is the tip." He also says, "It's just for the bathing cap. I just like to put a bathing cap." He also tells the soldiers, "Remember this is the Vietnamese word, Con Dum," and impersonates an Italian moon launch by blowing up the condom and then letting it go and he refers to it as an "Italian party favor." After he lets the partly blow-up condom balloon go, he exclaims, "Jeez, it almost blew up in my face. There's prophylactic everywhere!" Adrian, smiling, makes a masturbatory motion with his fist as the soldiers are transported away. A bare-chested soldier holds an artillery gun. Before Adrian leaves Dickerson's office, he says to him, "You know, you're in more dire need of a blowjob than any white man in history." General Taylor, having heard what Adrian said, gets into an elevator in a later scene, repeats most of the line and says to himself, "That's funny." SMOKING Dickerson smokes once, as does as a member of Adrian's staff and a Vietnamese man much later in the film. One of the men taking calls about Adrian's program smokes a cigar. Cigarette smoke rises from an ashtray on the radio console, and a cigarette sits in one of its slots, smoldering. A soldier lights a cigarette. A laughing serviceman in an office holds a cigar. A soldier manning a gun on a boat has a cigarette in his mouth. As Jimmy notes to Adrian the ankle of a certain soldier, that soldier's hand is seen holding a cigarette. General Taylor takes a cigarette out of a pack and puts it in between his lips. A Vietnamese man in a long t-shirt holds a cigarette. An old Vietnamese man with long nails holds a cigarette. A Vietnamese man runs during the softball game with a cigarette in his mouth. TENSE FAMILY SCENES None. TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT The history of the Vietnam conflict, including the count of soldiers needed, and dying, always rising. In the film, Radio Saigon employs twin brothers as censors who read quickly what's come over the wires and crosses out what cannot be said on the air by order of the Department of Defense. This includes soldiers killed and an instance of a soldier trying to hijack a fighter jet in order to raid Hanoi. Sergeant Major Dickerson and Captain Hauk don't like anything about Adrian, Dickerson more so. All the people Adrian impersonates on the air. Two GIs don't want Tuan in Jimmy Wah's because "we don't like gooks, we don't want him here, you just get him out." Vietnamese people watching the film "Beach Blanket Bingo" in a movie theater in utter silence. Cultural differences between the Americans and Vietnamese. Adrian's opinion of Richard Nixon and General Taylor's, which appear to be similar. On the other hand, Hauk believes that Nixon is "a good man and a decent man." Vietnamese police violently clash with protesting citizens. An American helicopter bombs an entire village, a car and a building burn, and there's some bloodshed, all to the tune of "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong. Dickerson gets Adrian sent to An Lac, through a route that has been deemed hazardous for 48 hours. Dangerous it is, as the jeep Adrian and Garlick are in hits landmines and rolls over and Vietnamese with machine guns go looking for them. Adrian's trust is shaken by an unthinkable event. The result of that is an argument comparing the American side and the Vietnamese side of the war. Robin Williams' performance, veering from comedy to drama and back. VIOLENCE A serviceman pushes Tuan down to the floor in the bar. Adrian head-butts a serviceman in the face and the man falls through some sort of wooden decoration. Adrian tries to head-butt another man, but the man's chest doesn't take it. Adrian exclaims, "Oh sh*t!" and the soldier punches him in the face. One of Adrian's guys runs up behind the soldier and exclaims, "That's it for you, asshole!" and another of Adrian's guys jumps on the man. Part of the scuffle causes a table to bounce up and a bottle of beer and a glass of beer fall to the floor and break. Jimmy Wah's explodes behind Adrian and Tuan. In the aftermath of the explosion at Jimmy Wah's, a man, possibly dead, lies on the ground with blood on his chest. A woman has blood on her leg and on her dress, and another woman wearing blue earrings runs out with streaks of blood on the left side of her face. One serviceman is carried out by two others, his shirt is torn open, and there's blood all over his body. A few people lie dead, but only their feet are seen and no blood is shown. One man lies dead with blood and water soaked through his shirt, and Adrian helps carry that man elsewhere. A few servicemen try to push the Vietnamese back, nearly resorting to violence as we see them. An American helicopter bombs an entire village, a car and a building burn, and there are bodies, all to the tune of "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong. Two soldiers line up three men against a wall in a hallway and shoot them dead, though we only see the impact of the shots and the men falling to the floor. Vietnamese police and protesting citizens clash violently, and a cameraman falls to the ground trying to avoid the grabby hands of a policeman trying to stop him from filming the clash. A landmine explodes under Adrian and Garlick's jeep, sending it spinning, and another mine causes it to roll over. Reviewed off DVD / Posted June 18, 2010