Hill 937, a steep well fortified pin on a map. The People's Army of Vietnam had it and the

U.S. Army wanted it. That's all a soldier on the U.S. Army wanted it.

That's all a soldier on the ground needs to know,

and it's all we know,

as we follow our one platoon through this one operation.

Along the way we get to know the sergeant and the through this one operation.

Along the way we get to know the sergeant and the squad leader,

played by Stephen Weber and Dylan McDermott, respectively.

But we get to know them fairly little

compared to the rest of the platoon.

There's Doc, the medic, played by Courtney B Vance.

There's Beanstock and Biletsky in Motown. There's Languelly too,

and you better say his name right.

McDaniel has less than a month left on his tour.

Each person gets a scene to better understand them and their motivations.

There's a feeling of dread that pervades

this film though. It's a haunted house kind of dread. What kind of dread you feel when you spend

an amount of time with characters you grow to like who you are sure are going to

meet a terrible end in movies like this. It's not going to go well on Hill 937.

The futility of the repetition cements that. Attempt after

attempt is made, there's napalm and rain, there's friendly fire. It's exhausting and terrifying.

It's the tenth assault in the rain that takes dock,

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