Casualties of War
During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. And then tensions between him and the rest of the unit heat up and finally explode during a firefight with Viet Cong troops.
22 December 1951, USA
8 October 1944, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
16 December 1961, New York City, New York, USA
12 May 1966, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
1 February 1964, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
15 September 1960, Roanoke, Virginia, USA
1962, Detroit, Michigan, USA
12 September 1966, Winfield, Kansas, USA
9 May 1957, San Francisco, California, USA
24 May 1965, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 July 1964, Bogotá, Colombia
18 February 1963, Indiana, USA
17 August 1960, Santa Monica, California, USA
10 September 1953, Palo Alto, California, USA
6 May 1952, Lakewood, Colorado, USA
March 16, 2015
A typical De Palma film, disturbingly based on true events, Casualties Of War works well enough.
March 16, 2015
Michael J. Fox is a revelation as the mouse that roared, whilst the score, the direction, and the rest of the cast turn a risky film into a solid addition to the Nam canon.
March 16, 2015
Top acting honors go to Penn as the sergeant and Thuy Thu Le as the captive girl.
May 10, 2016
The strong conclusion ensures that the film ends on a somewhat powerful note...
May 20, 2003
Mr. Penn plays Meserve with terrific elan. There is plausibility in every movement and gesture, and especially in his crafty handsomeness. His Meserve is the sort of man one credits with thoughts when the mind may, in fact, be completely blank.
July 20, 2016
Speaking to our near-masochistic desire to revisit works in the hope that we can reverse the tragic outcome, Casualties of War perhaps transcends the very label of "war film."
January 01, 2000
Another Brian De Palma movie, another bludgeoning. Or stabbing. Or body-drilling. Whatever -- as long as the victim's a woman.
March 26, 2009
A powerful metaphor of the national shame that was America's orgy of destruction in Vietnam, Brian De Palma's film deals directly with the harrowing rape and murder of a Vietnamese woman by four GIs.
May 28, 2015
Makes us look at the mistaken Vietnam War as something that's dehumanizing.
June 24, 2006
Casualties of War is dull.
January 01, 2000
It is a breakthrough work, a signal of an artist's blossoming maturity, and one of the most punishing, morally complex movies about men at war ever made.
March 16, 2015
There's a moral charge to the action, but it's also swooningly exciting, coldly scary. Every friend may be an enemy, every innocent a traitor.
