Bat*21 (1988)
Country: US
Technical: col 105m
Director: Peter Markle
Cast: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover
Synopsis:
During the Vietnam war an Air Force colonel flying a reconnaissance mission prior to an important air strike is shot down and helped back to safety by a light aircraft pilot.
Review:
A sort of tour of the war in all its aspects: the clash of cultures, the chaos, the push-button nature of it. During his ingeniously coded nine-hole odyssey to being picked up - a conceit which is quickly dropped and perhaps too little explained - the colonel is brought closer to the enemy (soldier and civilian) than he has ever been, and is humanized by the experience. A simplistic, perhaps, but engaging tale.
Country: US
Technical: col 105m
Director: Peter Markle
Cast: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover
Synopsis:
During the Vietnam war an Air Force colonel flying a reconnaissance mission prior to an important air strike is shot down and helped back to safety by a light aircraft pilot.
Review:
A sort of tour of the war in all its aspects: the clash of cultures, the chaos, the push-button nature of it. During his ingeniously coded nine-hole odyssey to being picked up - a conceit which is quickly dropped and perhaps too little explained - the colonel is brought closer to the enemy (soldier and civilian) than he has ever been, and is humanized by the experience. A simplistic, perhaps, but engaging tale.
Country: US
Technical: col 105m
Director: Peter Markle
Cast: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover
Synopsis:
During the Vietnam war an Air Force colonel flying a reconnaissance mission prior to an important air strike is shot down and helped back to safety by a light aircraft pilot.
Review:
A sort of tour of the war in all its aspects: the clash of cultures, the chaos, the push-button nature of it. During his ingeniously coded nine-hole odyssey to being picked up - a conceit which is quickly dropped and perhaps too little explained - the colonel is brought closer to the enemy (soldier and civilian) than he has ever been, and is humanized by the experience. A simplistic, perhaps, but engaging tale.