F.T.A.

While the cabaret performances are the documentary's draw, the movie comes most alive in the interspersed interviews with servicemen and women willing to speak their minds.

For all its agility and pressing close-ups, the film doesn't capture that spirit-or even adequately show the kind of experience that might have let it grow.

There could not be a more perfect time to bring this film out of its enforced, premature retirement.

F.T.A. is most powerful when it pulls out to look at the empire the United States has carved out in the Pacific Rim.

The film presents a bold, lively, and growing anti-war movement from within the military itself that is decidedly working class.

FTA premiered the same week as Fonda's Hanoi stunt, was quickly yanked from theaters, and went undistributed since. That might have saved Fonda's career, which otherwise would have been overwhelmed by this film's undeniable hatefulness.

I cannot recommend this film enough, for its historic and entertainment value. And to see a controversial work that our government tried to destroy.

F.T.A. is a convincing testament to the theater kid's particular tools of discord.

As a film lover, it's incredible watching Fonda and Sutherland from a purely performance standpoint...

The film is a rich document, a good time in its own right and, in some ways, still sadly relevant.