Pretty brilliant and insightful if you think about it. Life and skill in war is as fleeting and meaningless to the universe as a minor detail of something we never pay mind to, a simple oil drip from a hydraulic door.
I thought it worked as an extreme parody of the way violence is usually depicted, where there's one untouchable fighter and hordes of expendable grunts on either side.
Insertion of chance occurrences into stuff like this always seemed important to me, and Peter Chung was really the only person who ever seemed to understand that concept. Fucking awesome.