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Film Review: Brothers in Arms
Wed Sep 8, 2004 02:21 AM ET
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reviewsNews&storyID=6175703

By Frank Scheck
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "Brothers in Arms," this week's campaign commercial, er, political documentary, is a portrait of Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry's service in Vietnam, as related by him and four of his swift boat crewmates.

Being given a theatrical release shortly before its debut on DVD, the First Run Features film is well-timed to both counter and capitalize on the political and media furor that has surrounded the issue in recent weeks.

Directed by Paul Alexander, who has written books about both Kerry and Sen. John McCain, the bare-bones affair is largely composed of interviews with David Alston, Mike Medeiros, Del Sandusky and Gene Thorson, the four surviving members of Kerry's crew, as well as the candidate himself. An ethnically and politically diverse lot, the men relate their experiences in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, as well as the war's aftermath, in moving and articulate fashion. Archival footage, both of the war and Kerry's subsequent anti-war speeches, completes the package.

Inevitably, the film has the air of an extended campaign ad, but that doesn't make its subjects and the stories they tell any less compelling. And considering that these were the soldiers who served the closest with Kerry during his brief (four-month) tour of duty, they provide highly credible testimony to counter the charges being made against the candidate, most notably in the book "Unfit for Command."

Though the stories of the skirmishes during the war, including the ones that have attracted the most controversy because of the conflicting versions of Kerry's conduct, are compelling, even more moving are the accounts by several of the subjects of the emotional difficulties they faced upon returning home. Describing their experiences coping with alcoholism, depression and near suicide, they provide a vivid reminder that the war enacted an emotional and physical toll largely being ignored in the current political sniping.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

[bach04]

Even after Kerry's talking to Clinton, who told him not to go back to the vietnam topics, we find a new propaganda film to be released in DVD about what? Vietnam! The problem with Kerry is that there is nothing else for him to run on; and there will be more and more allusions to his Vietnam days in the weeks ahead, particularly now that the media has decided once again to bring up Bush's national guard service. I just hope the release of the documentary about the POWs from the Stolenhonor veterans coincides with this release...

[Stevie]

Good, we can look for more Kerry lies...

[NortonPete]

>>>>even more moving are the accounts by several of the subjects of the emotional difficulties they faced upon returning home. Describing their experiences coping with alcoholism, depression and near suicide, they provide a vivid reminder that the war enacted an emotional and physical toll largely being ignored in the current political sniping. <<<<<<

Please see Part Two of Unfit for Command for the reasons why these
men had to cope with alcoholism, depression and near suicide.
Their commanding officer sold them out after taking a short pass home.

[leeinwv]

Goes to show you he has nothing to talk about. He is asking for the swiftvets to hit him again with more truth