The Siege of Firebase Gloria

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Carl W @RT36647676 Jul 21, 2026 Love Lee Ermey,but too much hyped up dialog . Parading around with severed GI heads is a little too much. There are some good battle scenes and a fairly accurate VC compound,other than that the movie was made for the public consumption and did very little for the grunts who fought there. See more Mark B @Mbindon Jan 22, 2026 Lot of cliches and bad dialogue. The effects are just the better side of a b movie. 80’s action mucho marines. It was fine I guess action got repetitive and boring. See more The Few T @RT87720770 Aug 22, 2025 I was a currently serving Marine and was part of the test audience. My dad had seved in Vietnam as a Marine, and I had served under Marines who had also served in Vietnam. This movie was was ok, but certainly nothing to write home about. See more Chuck W @RT13141713 May 31, 2025 This is a very underrated Vietnam movie starring R Lee Ermey who plays the role of Marine NCO really well. He should, he was a Marine NCO in Vietnam. It also portrays the Viet Cong leader as a highly competent military officer, not the typical cartoonish character. R Lee also narrates, and the movie was written by an Australian Special Forces NCO who did multiple tours thus explaining the authenticity. See more DanTheMan 2 @DanTheMan2150AD May 11, 2025 There are no stirring heroics, no rousing patriotic speeches, and certainly no examination of the conflict's causes or consequences in The Siege of Firebase Gloria—just the cold, efficient butchery skills of men killing other men. There's very little in the way of jingoistic clichés and slo-mo heroics here; the whole film feels more like a leaked military snuff tape with its brutally frank depiction of the war, where both U.S. military personnel and Viet Cong fight tooth and nail as unsympathetic governments on either side move chess pieces about. These are ultimately scared human beings, some barely more than boys, who don't know why they have to do these horrible things, only that they must if they want to survive. Delivering 99 blood-soaked minutes, both sides shoot, stab, garrotte and strangle a seemingly inexhaustible supply of extras, Director and Ozploitation king Brian Trenchard-Smith pulls off a seemingly tremendous feat, making such a hostile subject entertaining, even thought-provoking, all on a frugal budget. The film not only packs in a lot of action but also personal by-play that delivers a wallop largely thanks to the fabulous script and tremendous leading performances. The always reliable R. Lee Ermey, who, true to form, unleashes an ungodly amount of guttural insults at decibel-shattering volume; all the while, a completely unhinged Wings Hauser displays a worrying enthusiasm for machine-gunning at every opportunity, readily suggesting an urgent need for psychiatric care. Backed by a chillingly effective synth score by Paul Schutze and incredible production values for its budget, The Siege of Firebase Gloria doesn't attempt to provide a Hollywood sheen to this ungodly nightmare and succeeds because of it. It comes with a hardened heart, where the humanity of its characters acts as one of the few beacons of light amongst the horrors of this hell. See more Frenie L @flab21 Sep 15, 2023 Little known Vietnam movie with R.Lee Ermey. See more Read all reviews

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