I can understand why when Michael read this script he though it would be a refreshing change. An actor always likes the opportunity to be in someone else's work, and apparently this was the first time in a long time, than he had read something that he thought might translate well to the screen. It did not. The director Hall Bartlett took a script for a dramatic love story, set against the results of the Vietnam war, and tried to turn it into some type of action film, filled with terrible cliches. The only parts of this film that work are those with Landon, particularly when he gives the speech about the dangers of war and the regime. Some of the supporting players are okay, but overall the movie is only decent and Landon's presence is the only reason that it is decent and able to be watched. In my view, if Landon had of taken over the production, re-wrote the screenplay, directed, and cut the film himself, I think it would have turned out ten times better.