John Irvin film tells the story of 14 soldiers from a unit of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division who spent ten days in May 1969 trying to take a hill held by North Vietnamese regulars.
Hamburger Hill is based on a true incident. The men in the company suffered 70% casualties. The hill was eventually captured, only to be abandoned later. The film serves as a grim reminder of what it was like for young men to do-or-die in Vietnam, Hamburger hill unpretentiously tries to convey the horror of war through gritty realism, It’s surprisingly refreshing, if limiting, technique, depicting a succession of battle scenes involving a diminishing trop of soldiers as they desperately try to further their advance, for no other reason than that is what they have been ordered to do. The repeated refrain, it don’t mean nothing says it all. This is a film about the futility of war expressed in the simplest terms.
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