Review of The Green Berets (1968) by Chris B — 26 Nov 2013

Don't get me wrong, I'm a sucker for John Wayne but this is probably one of his worst films and one that is purely a propaganda piece for the Vietnam War. The film is strictly a propaganda film and reinforces it multiple times with countless jabs at not going to war, a reluctive newsman who is of course won over after going with the Green Berets, and emphasis focused upon each Green Berets death.

Taken as an action film, The Green Berets has some decent action sequences but a poorly written screenplay and some overly melodramatic scenes involving a young Vietnamese boy, further pushing the political point home, who afer losing his newly acquired American friend is taken care of by John Wayne's character.