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Rating:  - Oldie but Goodie
We saw this movie when it first came out. We just wanted to see it again. It was on VHS so that was different for us. But it still had the same appeal to it. Action/Romance.
Rating: - DVD Please !!!!
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Rating:  - One of the best Vietnam films made
Both my husband (a Vietnam combat vet, 1967) and I love this film and it's one of our all-time favorites. To begin, it's just a really good story which pulls you right into all the action. It quite realistically depicts the war and the various relationships and life in a war zone (my husband found it quite authentic), and best of all it's a wonderful, rich love story with an ending which takes my breath away every single time I watch it. Unlike so many Vietnam war movies of the era, it does NOT indulge in the usual Hollywood anti-war bashing. It tells it like it was in terms of the war, it's honest, but the main thing in this film is the story and the characters--all great and totally believable, and the Vietnam war is the dramatic backdrop without the typical negative agenda. This is really not at all a "chick flick" in any way, but it's a love story with very compelling war action and overall it is very appealing to both men and women. Ken Wahl and Cheryl Ladd are perfect in their roles. Now if they would just put this one on DVD!
Rating: - One of my favorites!
I have always been a Ken Wahl fan but this movie goes beyond that. Why they don't put it on DVD has always been a mystery to me. There is even some very realistic feeling Vietnam footage in the film (yes, I was there). My wife and I both like this movie. Anyone who likes a good love story can't help but like this film.
Rating: - An old-fashioned war film but set in Vietnam
I saw this video while visiting a friend and pleasantly surprised. Drama, action and human interest makes Purple Hearts an exceptional winner.
I came here to buy the DVD as I do not have a VCR and was equally surprised to discover that Purple Hearts is dying as a VHS. What a waste!
This movie would have been more at home in the post-WWII era with such films as From Here to Eternity. I thought the film held the utmost respect for military personnel in the war - the attention to technical detail was superb, and the final credits list no less than six military technical advisors. In addition, I was most impressed by the convincing battle scenes, easily in the same league of "Boys in Company C" and even "Platoon." Make no mistake: this is a war movie with a romantic story angle, not a romance movie with a war story angle, and I believe the writer and director makes this important distinction very clear.
I guess this movie was just released at the wrong time, when dope-smoking audiences wanted only angry, hard-hitting anti-establishment, social commentary.
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