HomeOfDaBrav
Added 1/14/2010
I really don't have much to say about the movie, bought it cause it was bluray and the price was right. I would say it was a so, so movie. It lacked in regards to the point it was trying to make in regards to veterans coming back and the issue's they face trying to deal with beingback home...
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Doom, Gloom and Heaviness
Added 1/11/2010
After being ambushed and badly wounded on a humanitarian mission in Iraq, US soldiers return home, their lives forever altered by war. They struggle to build on what they once had, but find that nothing is as they thought it was.
Sadly, this movie focuses on tears, not victories, and on self-pity, not the pride that comes from liberating the oppressed. The film's foreboding atmosphere is grossly oppressive. There are no comic breaks, no bits of laughter to balance the anger, no lighthearted moments to cut the grimness. The film just trudges forward, offering no relief whatsoever from the darkness.
The message, whether intended or not, is that U.S. soldiers can't handle war. It turns them into unstable men and women who teeter on the edge of madness.
I thought the acting was pretty good, even from Samuel Jackson whom I normally don't like. He wasn't his usual flat self.
Had Hollywood added some lightness, and cut out some of the self-pity, it could have been a great film. But it's heaviness killed it for me. I felt strangely depressed after viewing this movie.
As for the political digs, they didn't belong either, but the Hollywood left will always have it's way when it comes to that.
It's a hard movie to rate, so I'll give it a liberal three stars, even though it probably deserves two.
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Inaccurate, left wing slanted, anti-soldier crap
Added 1/8/2010
Within the first 20 minutes I knew that this would be an overall terrible movie.
The "war" aspect of it is EXTREMELY inaccurate....M-16A2s currently in use are NOT fully automatic, a small squad of three soldiers would not go running from building to building nor EVER pursue 2 individuals through alleyways for hundreds of meters, and they would definitely NEVER leave a wounded soldier alone and say "Don't worry a medic is on it's way", and in an ambush two unarmored vehicles, or any for that matter, would split off the main group and drive off on their own. All this happens within 10 minutes of each other. As a currently soldier, I wanted to throw my size 10 boot through my TV.
And then comes the main point of this movie (wait, is there even a point to this nonsensical crap?) which is their return home and struggles with PTSD. Sadly, the American public is overall blind to what PTSD truly is, and this movie doesn't help. Not every soldier, even those with PTSD, struggle with their lives, violence, and alcoholism. It seems this movie was written by anti-American, anti-soldier, bitter individuals with a grudge against the Army. It portrays them as hopeless losers who can't function in society at all. So, sadly, this movie continues to add to the stigma of the wounded.
Aside from people like Mark Cuban and Stephen King, who think all soldiers are murders and rapists or uneducated idiots (seriously, look at what either of these two say!) I can't think of anyone who would watch this movie and enjoy it in the slightest. Even the movie Stop Loss, made by MTV of all companies, was far more accurate in depicting PTSD.
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Premise Good, Execution Bad
Added 12/29/2009
The premise of this movie is intriguing : A group of soldiers ambushed while on a humanitarian mission in Iraq, struggle to adjust to life back home in the United States. But somewhere along the way everything just falls flat between the writing and/or the acting, it seems to devolve into an anti-war movie. Which would not be bad or wrong, because I could understand were soldiers would begin to question the necessity or reasoning of a war, were they were injured, but the reactions seemed forced like these actors are articulating the views of writers rather than that of actual characters, but i'm not quite sure where to put the fault writing or acting.
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Dumb Movie
Added 12/27/2009
This movie was stupid and unrealistic. Don't waste your money on this garbage. Horrible acting!!
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HomeOfDaBrav
Added 1/14/2010
I really don't have much to say about the movie, bought it cause it was bluray and the price was right. I would say it was a so, so movie. It lacked in regards to the point it was trying to make in regards to veterans coming back and the issue's they face trying to deal with beingback home...
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Doom, Gloom and Heaviness
Added 1/11/2010
After being ambushed and badly wounded on a humanitarian mission in Iraq, US soldiers return home, their lives forever altered by war. They struggle to build on what they once had, but find that nothing is as they thought it was.
Sadly, this movie focuses on tears, not victories, and on self-pity, not the pride that comes from liberating the oppressed. The film's foreboding atmosphere is grossly oppressive. There are no comic breaks, no bits of laughter to balance the anger, no lighthearted moments to cut the grimness. The film just trudges forward, offering no relief whatsoever from the darkness.
The message, whether intended or not, is that U.S. soldiers can't handle war. It turns them into unstable men and women who teeter on the edge of madness.
I thought the acting was pretty good, even from Samuel Jackson whom I normally don't like. He wasn't his usual flat self.
Had Hollywood added some lightness, and cut out some of the self-pity, it could have been a great film. But it's heaviness killed it for me. I felt strangely depressed after viewing this movie.
As for the political digs, they didn't belong either, but the Hollywood left will always have it's way when it comes to that.
It's a hard movie to rate, so I'll give it a liberal three stars, even though it probably deserves two.
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Inaccurate, left wing slanted, anti-soldier crap
Added 1/8/2010
Within the first 20 minutes I knew that this would be an overall terrible movie.
The "war" aspect of it is EXTREMELY inaccurate....M-16A2s currently in use are NOT fully automatic, a small squad of three soldiers would not go running from building to building nor EVER pursue 2 individuals through alleyways for hundreds of meters, and they would definitely NEVER leave a wounded soldier alone and say "Don't worry a medic is on it's way", and in an ambush two unarmored vehicles, or any for that matter, would split off the main group and drive off on their own. All this happens within 10 minutes of each other. As a currently soldier, I wanted to throw my size 10 boot through my TV.
And then comes the main point of this movie (wait, is there even a point to this nonsensical crap?) which is their return home and struggles with PTSD. Sadly, the American public is overall blind to what PTSD truly is, and this movie doesn't help. Not every soldier, even those with PTSD, struggle with their lives, violence, and alcoholism. It seems this movie was written by anti-American, anti-soldier, bitter individuals with a grudge against the Army. It portrays them as hopeless losers who can't function in society at all. So, sadly, this movie continues to add to the stigma of the wounded.
Aside from people like Mark Cuban and Stephen King, who think all soldiers are murders and rapists or uneducated idiots (seriously, look at what either of these two say!) I can't think of anyone who would watch this movie and enjoy it in the slightest. Even the movie Stop Loss, made by MTV of all companies, was far more accurate in depicting PTSD.
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