Now, I had not heard about the 1979 Australian war movie titled "The Odd Angry Shot". It was initially the strange title that made me pick up the movie. And seeing it was about the Vietnam War, of course I opted to watch the movie.
Writer Tom Jeffrey didn't really managed to put together a very convincing script or storyline here, especially since there seemed to be absolutely no purpose to the storyline. The soldiers were just milling about the camp most of the time, and when they were out in the field there seemed to be no mission or objective to obtain. So the movie felt like rubbish.
And it didn't help much that the entire movie had zero feel of it taking place in Vietnam. I mean, just look at the trees, bushes and such in the movie, and you can clearly see that the movie was filmed in the Australian outback and not in the jungles of Vietnam. It was just laughably bad.
One thing that the movie had working for it, though, was the acting performances. Despite of the actors having very little proper material to work with in the script and storyline, then the performances put on were actually fair enough, and it helped to make the movie somewhat more watchable.
Director Tom Jeffrey's 1979 movie didn't entertain me particularly much, and it is not a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time. If you enjoy movies set in the Vietnam War, then "The Odd Angry Shot" is not a movie I would recommend.
My rating of "The Odd Angry Shot" lands on a three out of ten stars.
Writer Tom Jeffrey didn't really managed to put together a very convincing script or storyline here, especially since there seemed to be absolutely no purpose to the storyline. The soldiers were just milling about the camp most of the time, and when they were out in the field there seemed to be no mission or objective to obtain. So the movie felt like rubbish.
And it didn't help much that the entire movie had zero feel of it taking place in Vietnam. I mean, just look at the trees, bushes and such in the movie, and you can clearly see that the movie was filmed in the Australian outback and not in the jungles of Vietnam. It was just laughably bad.
One thing that the movie had working for it, though, was the acting performances. Despite of the actors having very little proper material to work with in the script and storyline, then the performances put on were actually fair enough, and it helped to make the movie somewhat more watchable.
Director Tom Jeffrey's 1979 movie didn't entertain me particularly much, and it is not a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time. If you enjoy movies set in the Vietnam War, then "The Odd Angry Shot" is not a movie I would recommend.
My rating of "The Odd Angry Shot" lands on a three out of ten stars.