Italian Vietnam War action/gore movie, starring David Warbeck as an American soldier on a special mission and a dubbed Tisa Farrow as a photographer. Fans of Italian horror films may well recognise them from The Beyond and Zombie Flesh Eaters respectfully. Also stars Italian Bobby Rhodes, who played the black pimp in Demons and its sequel. Back in the 1980's in the UK this was classed as a Section 3 Video Nasty but was never prosecuted. I have the UK Vipco DVD which claims, in addition to being uncut, that "This is one war movie you won't forget!!!" Well that's typical Vipco, I wouldn't completely agree with their statement. The film does linger on the wounds of dead and injured people, gory for 1980 but not especially so now. For me the most disturbing part has a group of sex starved American soldiers in the jungle attempt to sexually assault the female photographer, their outdated language making it all the more horrifying, coupled with the fact that she quickly brushes the incident off. It almost normalises seeing women as sex objects. Plenty of action, however it does ease off for a while in the middle. Fans of Italian exploitation movies should get some enjoyment from this but as a war movie don't expect a great deal.
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