I don't know much about any of the characters in this movie. That's a big problem. Because I finished watching it.
Why would I feel anything other than indifference for them? For all I know the shy kid may have been a horrible human being previously. Why is the older one so despondent all the time?
Why would you need two big stars to play the mothers? They hardly said anything about themselves or their sons. Who was the Sargeant ?
Can you say "cliche?" Hopefully, because this one was filled with them. The greenhorn recruit, the gung-ho southern Sargeant. The Humvee driver playing rock music.
Come on. If you're going to do a war film, you must come up with some different angle or perspective. Because it's already been done so many times.
We already know that war is hell, and that every veteran character thinks he has seen the dark side in some unique way that no one can relate to.
But Iraq was not Vietnam. There probably weren't many jungles, tunnels, tigers, water snakes, leeches, humidity.
Land mines, scorpions and body bombs yes. Got that. I understand that the young one would be overwhelmed. Who let him into combat anyway? Don't they have interviews?
As others have said, the crime committed was so illogical that it blows the mind. I don't believe it. I lived through the whole boring mess to find out what happens, and that's what I got? That's unacceptable.
I actually needed to see some obligatory Christians and patriots. Because I know that they exist. Not every soldier is some lost soul looking for a purpose and a paycheck.
Yet I didn't see anyone who understood what the war was about or felt invested patriotically or spiritually. So sloppy.
Why would I feel anything other than indifference for them? For all I know the shy kid may have been a horrible human being previously. Why is the older one so despondent all the time?
Why would you need two big stars to play the mothers? They hardly said anything about themselves or their sons. Who was the Sargeant ?
Can you say "cliche?" Hopefully, because this one was filled with them. The greenhorn recruit, the gung-ho southern Sargeant. The Humvee driver playing rock music.
Come on. If you're going to do a war film, you must come up with some different angle or perspective. Because it's already been done so many times.
We already know that war is hell, and that every veteran character thinks he has seen the dark side in some unique way that no one can relate to.
But Iraq was not Vietnam. There probably weren't many jungles, tunnels, tigers, water snakes, leeches, humidity.
Land mines, scorpions and body bombs yes. Got that. I understand that the young one would be overwhelmed. Who let him into combat anyway? Don't they have interviews?
As others have said, the crime committed was so illogical that it blows the mind. I don't believe it. I lived through the whole boring mess to find out what happens, and that's what I got? That's unacceptable.
I actually needed to see some obligatory Christians and patriots. Because I know that they exist. Not every soldier is some lost soul looking for a purpose and a paycheck.
Yet I didn't see anyone who understood what the war was about or felt invested patriotically or spiritually. So sloppy.