Heroes de Otra Patria

Rating:
Summary: Excelente cartel, encomiable intención, pésimo resultado
Review: ***This movie IS NOT DUBBED in Spanish. It was originally filmed in Spanish.
***Esta película no está doblada al español. Fue filmada en español.

Melodrama sobreextendido. Pudo haber sido (y tengo entendido que fue) un gran cortometraje. De todos modos, vale la pena verla, siendo el único largometraje sobre los puertorriqueños en la guerra de Vietnam.

This is an overextended melodrama. It could have been (and I believe it was) an excellent short. Nevertheless, it is worth watching, given that this is the only feature-length film about Puerto Ricans in Vietnam.

Rating:
Summary: Clumsy pro-independence propaganda
Review: Even though The independence movement in Puerto Rico is small (5%)...they are dominant in the arts. So here you have a movie that uses the Vietnam war to push it's pro-independence , anti-american agenda.
Aside from that , the movie is clumsily directed, badly acted and the dialogue is contrived, to say the least.
All in all, a complete waste of time.

Rating:
Summary: Ignorance
Review: Far from having an agenda, this is a thoughtful film. I resent the ignorant comment tying the movie to the independent movement in Puerto Rico, which by the way, means independence from the United Stated. Anyway, this film is about those who fight for a country that's not truly their own. It is based on a moment in our (and the world's) history that affected EVERYONE, not just those from one political party or another. True, film arts have a long way to go in Puerto Rico, but this is certainly NOT a movie about which we should be ashamed or that we should cast aside.