| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
A film without political context has little to focus upon other than the emotional life of the characters. Because the wartime situation in which these characters find themselves has been explored - and explored better - before, we are left with neither political insight nor psychological.
It is hard to see the point of this movie since it offers little in the way of information about the current situation in Iraq nor does it propound any sagacity about war, as such. The characters are damaged by their experiences but the sight of corpses, especially young ones, is bound to have that affect - so what else is new and different?
Enjoyable but pointlessly bland, stylistically cliché and containing characterizations that are a little too flat to make this anything other than run-of-the-mill - Full Metal Jacket said it so much more eloquently.
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