NOT VERY REALISTIC- Lot's of wasted ammo (spray & pray, not aiming, firing from the hip) - unnecessary when unblocked fields of fire are set up on the perimeters; M-60 machine guns firing at close range into groups of the enemy bunched together and no one goes down, etc.; HQ ignores reports of an enemy regiment, troops call NCO's "Sir". HISTORY REVISION - The U.S. embassy was NOT "ravaged" during '68 Tet - minimal damage and only 2 sappers made it inside the compound and both were killed. Overall, the Tet Offensive was a huge enemy failure - as recorded in the memoirs of both N. Vietnamese and VC military officers. TOO MUCH MACHO - The movie is overloaded with dramatic military cliché's - and Ermey desecrating the dead by walking around swinging the severed heads of two American troops while giving a pep talk is ludicrous.
Review of The Siege of Firebase Gloria
