Beautiful, moving film.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Congrats, the worst war movie I ever watched - I'm ready sick of it after 23 minutes. No acting from anyone (my cats act better), RPG and weapons mechanics completely unrealistic (even bullets that hit targets and don't do an hole or a scratch) - and a montage that makes me scream in pain (black fading every 2 minutes!!!)Squad movements and tactics are dumb and unrealistic as well - everything to get them killed.Dialogues are the stereotyped type - but they are, by far, the worse written ones I ever encountered. The completely inexistent acting while saying them doesn't help either.I hope you guys (actors, director especially) finish all on the streets, hoboing somewhere cold

This movie was a literal smack in the face of soldiers that served in OIF, like myself. I cant believe that this movie was so horrible. I have been in the National Guard for 10 years now with 3 deployments as an infantryman, to Iraq, and this movie was not even close to the real deal. First of all, National Guardsmen are no longer "weekend warriors, that just signed up to help fill sandbags when it flooded in our communities" That was a direct quote from this horrible movie. It enraged me to no extent. Second, ya there are some ambushes and IEDs but not to this extent! Its just ridiculous. It also portrayed the jihads as being courageous and relentless fighters, which is NOT the case. They are known for their shoot and scoot tactics, very cowardly. Don't waste your time this movie is garbage...Don't believe anything you see.

I want my $1.83 rental fee back. However ....I write novels, I've worked on productions. Anyone involved in writing or production can learn from this disaster.First, the palm trees. Not only are the palms fake, but the crew uses the same fake palms in scene after scene.Second, the locations. Travel the Middle East, study the cinder block construction, the roads, the curbs, the streetlights, the power poles. Take thousands of photos. A better idea would be to stage the action in the night. In this way, a production crew could create a more realistic background for the action.Third, interview veterans of Iraq. How often did they actually see an enemy? In this production, insurgents attack en masse every other minute.All the field details: the soldiers standing in groups to deliver dramatic dialog, walking and talking in the middle of the road, taking cover behind bushes? behind the glass and sheet metal of a car? A 7.62mmComBloc slug will punch through all the steel of a car and kill you. And the truck taking repeated hits from RPG's? The RPG's exploding in a ball of rising fire? Do the Iraqis load their RPG's with gasoline? And taking a wounded American to an Iraqi hospital? Who thought of that stupidity? Medevac in Iraq is 15 minutes from wound to surgery. Iraqis don't even have disposable needles. They don't have sutures. They don't have antibiotics.And a knife-fight to the death with an assault force of Iraqis? They hear the Americans firing pistols, then go silent? 'Oh, they're out of ammunition, let's let them knife us.' And after the climatic knife-fight, the soldiers take to the road with empty weapons? Who financed this trash? Send me money. I'll buy the stories of veterans, put together a righteous action-adventure drama.ghfrost google that name

I guess this was meant to be some good-intentioned pacifist movie, but its makers ended up getting it wrong, in self-consciously and ignorantly giving a false portrayal to everyone on the pretty wide spectrum leading from CIA agents through American soldiers to Iraqi guerrillas. Here it's definitely not an accomplishment that all of those mentioned might find their reason to dislike the portrayal they got.(Minor spoiler follows.) As to the basic concept , put simply, it feels as though the American soldiers were allowed to kill a lot of insurgents (so many that I guess an average American soldier will not see on a whole tour of duty in Iraq), only to get away even in the eyes of U.S. audience groups with the way they relate to CIA agents in the film. The whole concept was formed so as to put G.I.'s in the position of simple-minded, victimized justice-doers and meanwhile equal CIA agents and Iraqi guerrillas in a moral sense. OK, it's really a waste of words to continue from here on. Suffice it to add that the first half hour of the movie actually didn't look so bad, e.g. as someone else pointed out the costumes at least looked alright, and so thereafter it was a let-down that I wouldn't have expected right away.