For two-thirds of this movie I had feelings of deja vu. "Full Metal Jacket", "Apocalypse Now"... you can probably add your own, you know the territory. The performances are fine, especially Gyllenhaal and Foxx, but the script rehashes many war movie cliches (such as the scene where the Sergeant talks intimately to the Private for no very good reason except that the movie maker wants to show the martinet's humanity).
The difference is that this is a war movie without a war. We get captions showing the build-up (300 days in the desert and 590,000 troops) and then the war lasts precisely 4 days and 4 hours. The trained killers kill no-one. Instead the central character discovers a napalmed convoy of Iraqis who were trying to ... Read More:
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For two-thirds of this movie I had feelings of deja vu. "Full Metal Jacket", "Apocalypse Now"... you can probably add your own, you know the territory. The performances are fine, especially Gyllenhaal and Foxx, but the script rehashes many war movie cliches (such as the scene where the Sergeant talks intimately to the Private for no very good reason except that the movie maker wants to show the martinet's humanity).
The difference is that this is a war movie without a war. We get captions showing the build-up (300 days in the desert and 590,000 troops) and then the war lasts precisely 4 days and 4 hours. The trained killers kill no-one. Instead the central character discovers a napalmed convoy of Iraqis who were trying to ... Read More:
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For two-thirds of this movie I had feelings of deja vu. "Full Metal Jacket", "Apocalypse Now"... you can probably add your own, you know the territory. The performances are fine, especially Gyllenhaal and Foxx, but the script rehashes many war movie cliches (such as the scene where the Sergeant talks intimately to the Private for no very good reason except that the movie maker wants to show the martinet's humanity).
The difference is that this is a war movie without a war. We get captions showing the build-up (300 days in the desert and 590,000 troops) and then the war lasts precisely 4 days and 4 hours. The trained killers kill no-one. Instead the central character discovers a napalmed convoy of Iraqis who were trying to ... Read More:
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For two-thirds of this movie I had feelings of deja vu. "Full Metal Jacket", "Apocalypse Now"... you can probably add your own, you know the territory. The performances are fine, especially Gyllenhaal and Foxx, but the script rehashes many war movie cliches (such as the scene where the Sergeant talks intimately to the Private for no very good reason except that the movie maker wants to show the martinet's humanity).
The difference is that this is a war movie without a war. We get captions showing the build-up (300 days in the desert and 590,000 troops) and then the war lasts precisely 4 days and 4 hours. The trained killers kill no-one. Instead the central character discovers a napalmed convoy of Iraqis who were trying to ... Read More:
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For two-thirds of this movie I had feelings of deja vu. "Full Metal Jacket", "Apocalypse Now"... you can probably add your own, you know the territory. The performances are fine, especially Gyllenhaal and Foxx, but the script rehashes many war movie cliches (such as the scene where the Sergeant talks intimately to the Private for no very good reason except that the movie maker wants to show the martinet's humanity).
The difference is that this is a war movie without a war. We get captions showing the build-up (300 days in the desert and 590,000 troops) and then the war lasts precisely 4 days and 4 hours. The trained killers kill no-one. Instead the central character discovers a napalmed convoy of Iraqis who were trying to ... Read More:
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For two-thirds of this movie I had feelings of deja vu. "Full Metal Jacket", "Apocalypse Now"... you can probably add your own, you know the territory. The performances are fine, especially Gyllenhaal and Foxx, but the script rehashes many war movie cliches (such as the scene where the Sergeant talks intimately to the Private for no very good reason except that the movie maker wants to show the martinet's humanity).
The difference is that this is a war movie without a war. We get captions showing the build-up (300 days in the desert and 590,000 troops) and then the war lasts precisely 4 days and 4 hours. The trained killers kill no-one. Instead the central character discovers a napalmed convoy of Iraqis who were trying to ... Read More:
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For two-thirds of this movie I had feelings of deja vu. "Full Metal Jacket", "Apocalypse Now"... you can probably add your own, you know the territory. The performances are fine, especially Gyllenhaal and Foxx, but the script rehashes many war movie cliches (such as the scene where the Sergeant talks intimately to the Private for no very good reason except that the movie maker wants to show the martinet's humanity).
The difference is that this is a war movie without a war. We get captions showing the build-up (300 days in the desert and 590,000 troops) and then the war lasts precisely 4 days and 4 hours. The trained killers kill no-one. Instead the central character discovers a napalmed convoy of Iraqis who were trying to ... Read More:
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For two-thirds of this movie I had feelings of deja vu. "Full Metal Jacket", "Apocalypse Now"... you can probably add your own, you know the territory. The performances are fine, especially Gyllenhaal and Foxx, but the script rehashes many war movie cliches (such as the scene where the Sergeant talks intimately to the Private for no very good reason except that the movie maker wants to show the martinet's humanity).
The difference is that this is a war movie without a war. We get captions showing the build-up (300 days in the desert and 590,000 troops) and then the war lasts precisely 4 days and 4 hours. The trained killers kill no-one. Instead the central character discovers a napalmed convoy of Iraqis who were trying to ... Read More:
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