![]() Vincent D’Onofrio is the unbalanced Pyle who shows the potentially dangerous and negative effect of the training methods. The role was meant to be for Anthony Michael Hall, but Hall fell through in negotiations. Matthew Modine was always a good everyman, and Joker as his name implies sees the joke of war (though he thinks he understands it more than he does). ![]() While the rawness works, the story loses direction in its intentional lack of direction for the viewers. Unlike a Platoon or even an Apocalypse Now which had a message about the war, it is more of an implied message and feels a lot rawer than some of the more polished war films. While this is important to the story, it just isn’t as interesting. The second half of the film demonstrates what happens when this mentality is applied to a real world crisis.
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