Tonight on Amazon: Between Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, one forgotten gem to rediscover!

This film, based on a true event that took place in Vietnam in 1961, tells the story of the attack of the American 101st Airborne Division to take Hill 937, nicknamed “Hamburger Hill”. Where, literally, soldiers were hacked for ten days, giving an idea of ​​the scale of the carnage…

Esteemed director John Irvine, 84, began his career in England as a production assistant in the 1970s, making documentaries and slowly progressing to feature films.

The director of War Dogs, starring Christopher Walken as a mercenary, but also an unforgettable (and equally violent) contract with Arnold Schwarzenegger, we can say without trembling that the filmmaker’s best film is the bonus of a great war film: Hamburger. on the hill

Stuck between Oliver Stone’s undeniably fabulous Platoon and Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket , which also suffers from a Stone film of the time, Hamburger Hill is still one of the best Vietnam War movies ever made.

Written by James Karabatsos, who participated in the 1968-69 conflict with the 1st Airborne Cavalry Division and spent five years interviewing soldiers involved in this bloody episode of the war, Hamburger Hill was praised for its realism upon liberation. Impressive fight scenes as highlighted elsewhere Vietnam War Veterans Sitewho also recalled that this was the first film where the special effects team used real phosphorus bombs, the result of which was devastating and absolutely terrifying.

Hamburger Hill to watch or rewatch on Prime Video.