Although Bodo was nominated for best picture at that year's Golden Horse Festival, the jury was polarized. Those who admired the film said that it showed the real problems of life as a conscript, and the emotional entanglements of army life, whereas others condemned it as a substandard and unintelligible piece of cinema, with a dishearteningly disheveled-looking cast.
《寶島大夢》雖然得到該年金馬獎最佳劇情片提名，卻引起兩極化反應，推崇的評審說，影片勇於揭發兵役問題和軍中生活感情糾葛的真相；反對人士則堅持該片製作水準不及格，看不懂在拍什麼，披頭散髮的演員讓人看了難過。