djchurney-55734 Review of Purple Hearts

Purple Hearts (2022)

Good weekend movie with a very lazy script at times.

[6/10 · 30 July 2022]

I wanted to make a quick review. First this movie was a decent movie that kept my attention for the most part. The leads were both solid, especially Sofia Carlson. She is very talented, and has a very nice voice. Where the movie gets lazy is with the drug dealer friend. First he tries to get our male lead to go do some more drugs with him, after the guy tells him he's in the Marines. Then he gets mad at the lead because he won't go do drugs and make sure he tells him he wants his 15K that is owed to him. Very contradictory. I'm also not sure why he stopped paying the drug dealer, Luke got his legs blown off while on a deployment. The military doesn't just stop paying you, and he would have still be making that extra money. Then the dealer breaks in the mother in law's house, so then he goes and beats the dealer up and pays him in full. So then the dealer goes to the in laws house and tells the mom, oh I broke in your house(incriminating himself) and your daughters marriage is fake. Then the next thing you know a day later he is arrested by the military police. This is so laughable. I was in the military for 6 years, and now work in a civilian job with many military members from different branches, and I can tell you this is not how things work. Also in all my time I've never seen any military member arrested or kicked out of the military for a sham marriage, as it is next to impossible to prove. Some random dude who happens to be a drug dealer is not going to make a report, and even if they did it would go nowhere, as military members don't get charged for fraudulent marriage. Definitely not one who got wounded while fighting for his country, as that would be a huge PR nightmare for the Marines. Also if some idiot threatened to harm a Marines family, more then likely that idiot would end up in the ground. Marines are a different breed, and once a marine always a marine. So if you were to threaten one, or one of their family members you will have to deal with them all. The director/writer could have researched google for 10-20 minutes and come up with a much better and realistic movie. The movie wasn't bad, everything that involved the military was terrible, and poorly written, and not researched at all.