Battle Scars

The script is the laziest story-writing i've ever come across...

The director makes zero effort to visually tell a you story.. so you spend almost 80% time listening to the main character (mikey) tell you what is happening in his life and why... vs actually seeing a story.. Mikey just goes on and on pretentiously deeply about his trauma war, darkness, horror etc etc utterly unconvincing... but there is no story just a bunch of background, scenes and flashbacks and overused cliches.. You may as well buy a really bad unoriginal audiobook. There doesn't seem be any supporting characters, they just appear and pretty much disappear with no development.

There were lots of attempts at intense, dark visuals, imagery and could see what the director was trying to do but its so overused its just annoying.. i watched it to the end just to see if it was the bad all the way through... and yes.. it was..

Lastly, it then dedicates itself meaningfully to brave vietnam war veterans and their conditions and ongoing suffering (this is the only decent part of the film) as if it legitimises this awful piece of film - but it doesn't. Its bad.

This movie has a lot of problems but we have to address from the top down and start with the very bad and simply poor directing by the name director Samuel Gonzalez Jr. Also, the sets that are being filmed is laughable in relation to these type of events that actually happened... again this falls on the lap of the director who wrote this comedy! Lastly, very lazy writing in regards to this type of story that we've seen a million times even for a low budget! For someone who claims to be a veteran not very well done in relation to wars and those who have served. I would recommend not wasting your time on this film. Hopefully , he gets help from more experienced filmmakers !

Sorry about 1*. Actors work worth 5-6*. What killed all the movie is pine trees battle scene in Vietnam😃. OK, low budget, but it's no excuse to film it on your backyard. Dronw flying over pine tree forest in Vietnam? Really?

The epic scale and action set pieces alone make this film 5 stars. The brutality and emotional toll of war is captured well in the settings and acting, especially the opening 20 minutes. 10/10

OK, there are bad films...and then there are very bad films! This was hard to watch on all sorts of levels. The story is extremely lazy and no connections are made with the character development whatsoever! Then the use of modern props and or technology that's obvious not form the era of VIETNAM! This was a level below low budget filmmaking and not because of the money involved.... do NOT recommend watching this at all.