I'm a 20 year Military vet. I saw many bad things in my career. This is the only movie I cried while watching. Mainly because of Miss Thuy Le.

I wish this movie got the attention it deserves. It should be up there with Full Metal Jacket and Platoon.

It took me couple of attempts to finish this movie. So true and heartbreaking, brutal and disturbing. 😥

This is one of the most classic Vietnam War films I ever seen. Plus it's horribly shocking. The incident of Hill 192, holy shit, what a awful thing to happen in war. The Vietnam War was totally devastating.

My Ex-wife had a knack for finding obscure titles in our neighborhood VHS rental store back in the '90's. One Night she brought this home, and we loved every minute of it. From the brilliant performances, the casting the locations and Ennio Morricones brilliant score. This is the one that made me watch all of the other "Vietnam Movies". Definitely a GREAT movie

Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn were both excellent in this film.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” 💔😔

Don't know how this doesn't have many views.

The darkest "War" movie I've ever seen. Remember walking out of the cinema in the west end of London and like me my fellow cinema goer's were silent , just trying to process what we'd all just seen ! I should add that during the movie when then trail verdict came in , for the only time in my life I heard a previously transfixed audience suddenly come to life and unanimously applaud. I can't use words like "Great" or "Fantastic" to describe this film., given the heart of the story they would be inappropriate,. All I can say is, please go and watch it.

My husband is a retired JAG who studied the Hill 192 Incident. A lot of officers went down as well for covering it up. The squad might not have done much time, but you can be sure they paid for it for the rest of their lives. A court martial is conviction for a federal offense and will show up in every background search someone does on you--hiring managers, gun sellers, credit companies, etc. They also lost their VA benefits--free healthcare, mortgage applications, legal assistance, and tax-free base shopping.

As a Vietnamese i dont think i can able to watch the whole movie. The story of itself was too haunted to the general viewers.

In my opinion, this is De Palma's finest film. I'm just sorry that it was so unsuccessful at the box office and that few people saw it. Julie Salamon writes in her book, "The Devil's Candy", that after this movie flopped, De Palma went out into the streets in Paris, collapsed and almost died -- apparently, because the low box office returns were too much for him to handle. If it's any consolation to you now, Mr. De Palma, I assure you that this is a great movie.

I saw this one in the theater and recall thinking that this film would go on to be celebrated. The story is heartbreaking and if you are not sickened, you need to check your pulse. A must see, but only once.

As a veteran, when I saw this movie, I just had to get out of the theater.

My mom experienced Viet Cong communism's and my mother told me the Viet Cong people were beyond evil... She experienced the fall of Saigon and the Vietnam war etc..and my mom and me went to the America in the late 70s....... I love America very much and the American people but the Vietnamese girl was innocent and shouldn't have been kidnapped, raped, stabbed, and shot to death.... It's so so so sad... The Vietnamese girl was just caught in-between the American soldiers and the Viet Cong ... The poor girl had nothing to do with this ... She was just caught in between the war

Michael fox made the movie! He was completely believable and expressed the disgust most would've felt. Movie was so well done!

The ending is really sad.

This along with platoon and apocalypse now are the best Vietnam war movies

still watching this movie in 2023 so sad 😭

I remember the reviews in Australia at the time were that the performances and film were brilliant but that it was very hard to handle. The subject matter immediately put me off as I had recently been totally traumatised by The Accused, not to mention years beforehand by Scarface. My military pilot husband and his pilot buddies all went along to see it at the cinema and all of them were emotionally overwrought by the experience.

Yeah Shery... This movie is one of the hardest movies to get through. As a Viet Nam vet myself... I think the tragic scene where the Vietnamese girl is shot on the plank bridge has to be one of the most gut wrenching scenes in cinema.

Just watched this again Feb 2022. Still truly a great movie.

It was an excellent film. I read that the film didn't make money, but I thought it was a fine film.

I remember watching this movie in the 90s as a kid on the weekend, it brings me back memories. The movie is a sad true story but the best ever made

I was the stenographer in the courtroom scene! Met Sean and Michael. Both great guys!

underrated movie the actress playing the Vietnamese girl did a really good job

Watched this movie for the first time today. Huge De Palma fan but never had the courage. Seeing this, and some interviews with Fox and the girl, is very helpful in getting through it.

Its sad that brownie died he wouldn't of let that happen to that girl

Late-great Ennio Morricone, one of the best film composers of all time

Absolutely Fox's best acting role.

This is a great interview. By chance I caught the ending on TV which I always loved. The event actually did happen in the original interview with Ericksson, Oct 1969, N Yorker. The place was Minn, not San Francisco. While De Palma took some liberties, it was gut wrenching, haunting, and beautiful. The writer did not like the ending but De Palma trusted his instincts. Lucky for us he did. He always wanted healing and some sort of closer to conclude the film. I truly wish Ericksson found closer as well.

one of the best war movies made along with SPR, Platoon, TRL

This is one of the best movies of its class

I remember this film...one of my all time faves, disturbing as it was.

The cast were all great people. I was an 'extra' in this movie. I sat and ate pineapple with the Vietnamese lady 'Ms Thuy Le. Sean and Michael were very decent types! No issues with them at all! The courtroom scene was shot in very hot weather, poor ventilation! * You can see the guards sweating through their uniforms! ** They were extras on holiday from Germany! Good fun for all!

J'ai adoré ce film., très poignant,, l'interprétation de Michael J Fox et de la jeune fille est magistrale,, l'horreur des conflits ou l'on voit le pire chez l'humain mais également le meilleur, les 2 faces de ce que nous pouvons être

Have to say, great man! Cheers...

the movie is a masterpiece. The sequence when he open up to the chaplain in the bar is gold

I love this movie and I know it's kind of a odd film to like but it's so well made. There are many parts of this film where one really feels the pain of these characters and I always get watery eyes at the end of it with that touching scene. I enjoyed this film more than Platoon.

My uncle did two tours in Vietnam. He saw his best friend get blown to pieces by a land mine. He was about 10 yards behind him when it happened. He RARELY would discuss it...for obvious reasons. We watched this movie one year at Thanksgiving. At the end of the movie I was stunned speechless. My uncle turned to me and said "Now THAT was Vietnam. Don't believe all the sugar coated shit that you kids have been fed. I went to war as an 18 year old kid thinking the Vietnamese were the enemy. I came back KNOWING the enemy." I never asked him to elaborate on it.

I saw this movie sometime around 5th Grade going into 6th Grade and even then this movie had an impact on me and made me sad and scared because of the hell the innocent Vietnamese Girl went through. I'm 28 now and don't get as sad and scared when I watch the movie, I get more mad and hungry for justice like Eriksson. I looked up a picture of the real-life counterpart of the character that Sean Penn portrayed sometime late last night/early this morning and my first thoughts were, there's the Bastard😠 That's why I love Michael J Fox's character as well as the real-life counterpart because.., I saw myself in that person.. someone who had gone through so much hell like everyone else and his gut instinct was.. I don't care what's going on I'm doing fucked up things for no apparent reason whatsoever. Plus his character as well as the real-life person made me feel safe and made me feel like I can contain my sanity in a squad full of insanely bad people while standing up for myself and others.

I'm giving this movie the award, the accolades, the Oscar it both deserves, - and has very well earned.

This is such a tough movie to get through, so upsetting. Might be Sean's best work. Also want to acknowledge Thuy Thu Le, who made it seem so devastatingly real

Pvt. Eriksson, You A True Hero to Humanity, don't Blame yourself for not being able to save that Helpless Angel, you were at odds which were not in your favour but made up for it by offering justice to those deprived. May the remaining 4 GO TO HELL 😡🔥💀👁👁🔪

18:16 i literally burst into tears

I remember my freinds rented this at a sleepover in 6th grade & I had sorta heard this movie was disturbing. My friends all watched it but I could not stomach it so I went upstairs to hang by myself. As soon as the horrible rape scene started I could not take it. Really disturbing plus I think we were all too young to watch this. Maybe I'll try again bc I'm shocked mjf character was able to bring these pigs to trial. I'm curious how when all the older higher ranking officers were not caring at all. I'm sure thus kind of horrible crap happened a lot.

Hello. I'm Vietnamese, I really burst into tears when I watched this movie, I don't blame anyone, I don't forget what America did to innocent Vietnamese people in the past, but I also want to be able to Show the friendliness of Vietnamese people to the world. Now that I'm free, can you help me translate all of the girl's dialogue in this movie? if possible😊

She should have won an academy for this role. Honey, I shrunk the kids killed this films potential. Release date was SO WRONG!

Watching Sean Penn speaking on Ukraine ..has led me here, to the most haunting film I've ever seen. 🇬🇧

Watched this ONCE when I was like 10 and I could not forget how heartbreaking this movie is. I'm even scared of watching it again

Summer 1989 was the big blockbuster summer of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," "Batman," "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids," and "Lethal Weapon 2." This movie was really dark in comparison - it's about a rape, after all - and it came out in August, where the box office hits were usually tapering off as the season would wind down. People were more accustomed to a comedic Michael J. Fox; his other non-comedic roles from the previous few years like "Bright Lights, Big City" didn't bring crowds.

VERY hard film to watch but sooo good.

There shoulda been a part 2 👍🏾

great movie

Heartbreaking, because it's true. And, in the end, these men never got a lifetime in jail. Living happy lives, I suppose. Right is right and wrong is wrong. But, I thank this soldier for speaking up. She will be remembered. Drafting people into war is cruel. It brings in the wrong people, and the innocent. This has stopped thankfully. It is a person who chooses now.

Wow I had no idea that was the same actress at the end and that Amy Irving of all people Dubbed her voice

if i just watching the movie casualties of war in released in august 18 1989 fox and penn are a soldiers i've ever seen before if most darkest war movie ever i made to a michael j fox back to the future trilogy so hugh jackman's wolverine is a character Casualties of War best movie ever so does the next movie called "The Wolverine"

And in the end Michael j. Fox turned out to be a giant amongst men….no matter what Sean Penn said or did to him!👏🏿👏🏾👏👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻

Best Music Score in Movie history 🍿

Patches is worn in the film is Americal division aka 23rd infantry division

omg i cant watch anymore because of the girl.....im depressed now'

22:16 - :18 He did that himself.

I definitely prefer this ending over the one David Rabe had in mind. I think its perfect for a film like this. Especially considering the fact that in real life they never came after him thanks to WPP.

This Film.

If they make a new war movie like casualties of war

What this film should have rationalized about war, what soldiers fight is what they become... I do remember a German Captain when they invaded Russia stated about did they ever rape women.. Cpt smiled and said, "We had to remind ourselves they were inferior" If u still need your resolve...No

This movie didn’t do well in theaters and critics weren’t kind to it either. But over time, the appreciation of this film has grown and is studied in film and history classes. It’s not saturated with music like other Vietnam films and it’s not emotionally manipulative. The camera takes its time with the characters and let’s the audience figure it out As time passes, other Vietnam war films become more blatant in how chock full of war cliches it has-even platoon and full metal jacket. This film ages very well and as time passes, it stands apart from other Vietnam war films and looks more and more unique. And it emphasizes the performances. The other films are too top heavy with the war action scenes

Platoon was a piece of propaganda making one group look bad and the other one good. As many of Oliver Stone’s movies. This one was more complex. Penn’s character was a 20 year old hardened by a life in the NYC area and never had a moral compass from the beginning, Fox’s was a simple Minnesota farm boy, Harvey was probably just as mean and hardened as Penn to begin with, the Lt didn’t take action wanting to protect his career and sanity, and Dale Dye’s character had probably already been through WW2 and Korea, a prior enlisted that’s seen plenty of combat and without a filter as a result.

Dale Dye was also great

Since 2018 a true horror story, took what happened in John Cena and The Big Show at No Way Out, it was The Big Show destroying everyone and detonate the nuclear device in South Town.

The war movie which didnt just glorified but also showed the dark side

And she is English teacher now.

Does anyone have any information at all about the German movie he is talking about at around the 2:00 mark? I'm guessing now in 2022 with the internet being what it is, it might be possible to track it down. I'm not sure when this interview with the director originally took place, so it's possible that it this point it may have surfaced. I would be interested in giving it a view, as I had no idea it existed until just now. When you type in a search bar the words "German, War, Casualties," it's pretty much a nightmare to find what you are actually looking for. If anyone has any info, I would really appreciate it if you could post the title, or any info at all that could point me in the right direction. Thanks. Edit: Opps, nevermind, I didn't think to just search for the 1970 Berlin Film Festival, should have been my first stop. For anyone that might be interested here is the film he's talking about: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.k._(film) And it's available online if you search for it. Cheers.

Love this movie,I just hope I wouldn't have done that. In a Hellhole like that ,you just don't know.

Casualties of war is a very disturbing true story movie

Tht wouldn't have made sense bcz Clark got life

The war was escalated by the Gulf of Tonkin lie. Drafted late 60s

could it be, so michael j fox and sean penn's gonna be kidding me.

0:48 So this is the main reason. Thats why it looks like a Pro- north Vietnam movie 😁

Tarentino went on record and stated that this film presented the most traumatizing rape scene in the history of cinema. I don't know if I necessarily agree with him though about that. I think that the rape scene in The Accused is perhaps a more harrowing and disturbing rape scene than the one in COW is. And then of course you have the infamously prolonged rape scene from Irreversible as well. However I haven't actually seen Irreversible before, so I really can't comment on how disturbing it truly is. So therefore for me, as far as the most affecting, gut wrenching and powerful rape scenes in cinema goes, I'd place Casualties of War as being second only to The Accused. But it doesn't really make much of a difference in the end though as there's no getting by unscathed when it comes to viewing a rape scene in any film, cause there all horrific when it comes down to it.

I felt like the music was beating me to death. This is a powerful film but the movie was just too much.

in war everyone have to care himself to not going to kill himself the most important being in oneself 😉😉

They should've also been charged with attempted murder on Michael. Makes you wonder why they weren't.

Sean Penn's acting and accent was so over the top that it was distracting and took me out of the film.

If this was based on true events,what ever happened to the 4 who went to jail.........still there or.......

Should have used an actor who actually chewed tobacco if the character chewed tobacco. It looks dumb when he’s spitting white, clean spit. We all know Sean Penn doesn’t have real tobacco in his mouth. That sums up why I don’t like this movie. It doesn’t seem authentic.

This is a very good and awfully disturbing film that once again chronicles America's involvement in the Vietnam War. But I also have to disagree, once again, with Tarentino's view of this being the best film ever made about this particular war. I do feel that films such as Platoon and possibly Full Metal Jacket are, overall, the stronger and more impactful films in detailing the Vietnam experience than Casualties of War is. And it also must be taken into account that Platoon was directed by a man who actually served over there in Vietnam unlike DePalma who never went. This fact alone gives credence to Platoon being a bit more of a realistic view of what life over there was truly like. I don't include Apocalypse Now in this debate simply because the film itself is dealing with such bigger ideas and themes than the rest are, and thus goes beyond only detailing specific events that were dealt with and experienced throughout that war. As a war film it's really something else entirely when compared to all the other ones.

The dislikes are puzzling.

I personally think that Matt Dillon would have been perfect for the role of Meserve in the film, and a much better choice than Penn was imo.

i hate casualties of war

What was eating Sean penn in the movie? he always had something in his mouth.