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- Directed by Peter Markle with an eye for military detail, BAT 21 manages to be compelling without extended battle scenes. The film tends to belabor its points and is overly melodramatic, but its refusal to takes sides allows it to concentrate on the humanity of the combatants. Moreover, BAT 21 works well as a traditional male adventure story.
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“BAT*21” is the kind of lean, no-nonsense war film Hollywood used to make back before the subject became burdened with metaphysical insights.
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Bat 21 is an obscure but intriguing Vietnam War movie. Avoiding the flag-waving jingoism of many other 1980s Vietnam films, it crafts a riveting tale of survival while chronicling the relationship between two men flung together by war.
"Bat 21" is an exciting thriller about survival. And it also manages to say something about the victims of war, and how distance makes the difference to the soldier. Full Review | Jan 1, 2000
Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton (Gene Hackman) is shot down behind enemy lines during the waning days of the Vietnam War. His only connection to the outside world is through radio transmission with Capt...
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- Peter Markle
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- Gene Hackman
Oct 21, 1988 · Bat*21: Directed by Peter Markle. With Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed, David Marshall Grant. During the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's aircraft is shot down over enemy territory and a frantic rescue operation ensues.
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- Drama, War
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Bat*21 is a 1988 American war drama film directed by Peter Markle, and adapted from the book by William C. Anderson, novelist and retired United States Air Force colonel. Set during the Vietnam War, the film is a dramatization based upon the rescue of a U.S. air navigator shot down behind enemy lines in Vietnam.
What we have here is a solid war story with excellent performances, but a largely superficial look at Vietnam's atrocities. If Bat 21 says anything, it's that Hollywood is reluctant to release any more pure-action Vietnam pictures.
