is a bad movie. I watched it for the first time, and it didn’t age well.

Movie starts out with RW blatantly objectifying the first Vietnamese woman he sees… then thinking he sees her again, because haha every Asian looks the same right guys? cue theater audience wheezing

He ends up stalking her across town and bribes her teacher $20 to teach her class. Again, they’ve never spoken to each other, she was literally just walking along the street and he’s convinced that they will fall in love.

It doesn’t get better. I’m not trying to write a plot summary but it’s a couple hours of boomer humor mixed with orientalism, war propaganda, anti-communism, racism (you’re supposed to laugh when RW attempts to speak Spanish to communicate with the locals), and homophobia (there is one gay character and he is portrayed as a sexual deviant who likes taking creep photos of GI’s ankles)

The portrayal of the Vietnamese people was in general, fake and unbelievable. Unless you believe it’s realistic that a girl would fall in love with her stalker when they can barely even communicate to each other.

3/10 there were a couple funny lines, and the general structure, pacing etc of the film was ok