Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

The greatest movie ever made..!

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

An artful, powerful, and depressing movie, Travis Bickle on steroids.Russ Russo is a young man who is one of those urban loners -- unshaven, shabbily dressed, a mere projectionist, whose only hobby is taking movies although he seems to get no pleasure from it. There is no figure with less humor this side of Mount Rushmore. It develops that he was taken as a POW and tortured. It has driven him mad and he finally bursts like a pustule.The climax reveals that the four victims of his final spasm of violence, before his own suicide, were hallucinations. One of the victims, we discover, was his own father who, in reality, had been killed after being shipped out to combat.I take it to be an anti-war statement. When Russo finally eats his gun, the film switches at once from black and white to color as Russo's blood splatters all over an American flag on the wall.If it was intended to be an anti-war film, it succeeds. Okay. Russo's father had been killed after being shipped out to a war while Russo was a child. And Russo himself had been a prisoner of war. What wars were they? I don't know. We seem to have been at war in one place or another for some half a century and I can no longer keep them straight. It's been a kind of perpetual war.It's magnificent in its establishment of atmosphere but the atmosphere is as depressing as hell. Russo shuffling along deserted city streets. Russo sitting alone in an empty diner. Russo have sex with a hardened whore -- an imaginary hardened whore at that.Throughout, the actor's face is a mask of tragedy, which seems only to underscore what we already have learned. His voice is a hoarse, tentative whisper, as if he's hardly more than a ghost. He's a wispy echo of Travis Bickle and it's tiresome after a while. The other performers have room to stretch out a bit and they deliver the goods.The story borrows not just from "Taxi" but from "American Psycho", "A Brilliant Mind", and even Bob Clark's horror story, "Dead of Night," in which a young man returns from Vietnam as a sort of zombie. The business of the hallucinated friends is becoming an over-familiar conceit. It's like the ending in which the terrible story turns out to have been nothing more than a dream.But if you're going to make this kind of film, PTSD is an appropriate springboard. It's a very real psychiatric condition that leads to nightmares, substance abuse, violence, and suicide. It ruined Audy Murphy's life. And I can't forget one interview I did as a behavioral scientist with a Vietnam Vet in the VA hospital in Palo Alto, and his describing the Vietnamese crawling about under his artillery fire "like ants", and his having been picked up on the beach with a pistol, ready to find permanent relief from the monstrous memories.It's an ambitious movie and the director has handled it in ways that are sometimes innovative. We see two people in a shot. One shows a photo to the other and says, "Do you know this man?" The audience expects an instant insert of the photo being held by a couple of disembodied fingers. Not here. We do eventually see the picture but it's a fuzzy image of a man and two kids. There are too many loopholes in the plot for the movie to be entirely successful but it's going to be hard to forget.

"An act of war" is the story of a veteran of the military that - after knowing the atrocities of war - comes back home, but unfortunately he can't lead a normal life because of the post-traumatic stress. Violence and loneliness will continue to haunt him despite he attempts to adapt to normal. It is a realistic view of what happens to many soldiers returning from war, of what remains after the honors and prestige: they cannot return to live as ordinary people, because they will bring back for ever the memory and the trauma of having fought and having seen the deaths of their comrades. From now he won't live peacefully, because he has only a sense of self-destruction.

I was employed at a VA Hospital for two years. No matter what department you are in, you get to know some of the guys who are there on a regular basis. Hard to admit, but this is an all to frequent tale of someone unable to adapt once they make it home. It may be a bit dramatic or theatrical in places, but that's the idea of a fiction I guess. I just felt the need to say that from my experience, the plot of this film is not too far fetched to be believable. I wish I had a solution to the problem addressed in the story, but I don't think there is one beyond ending all conflict, which is never going to happen. As long as people are sent to fight the battles of more powerful people, these issues will persist. At least someone took the initiative to address it in a narrative form, which will make a lot more people aware of it that otherwise would be. This is not an action thriller as it's made out to be, but certainly worth the watch.

Jacob, a veteran of the military has been released from duty and now faces the world he sought to protect. Unaware that he suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from his capture and torture from enemy forces. Trying to make sense of his life, he leads a dreary existence as a projectionist for a run down theater in a poor neighborhood. He is surrounded with older run down mementos that remind of a happier past before the military. The people in his life also suffer the ills of the world around them; not catching a break from poor decisions. All these people intertwine with Jacob and lead to a tale of self destruction. This subject is something of a hotbed and not nearly addressed enough by society. We send strapping young lads into war but are never prepared to deal with the consequences and the products of such devastation.And what of these heroes when they return? Many of them become homeless, unemployed, even worse they are ignored. Ryan Kennedy brings out a brilliant tale that taunts shocking realism for the men and women in our armed forces. This vision complimented with the black and white cinematography brands this sense of isolationism and angst. It's a call for healing to those who suffered and need our attention. The world is too busy to help another human being much less a soldier who has served his time. The performance by Russ Russo as Jacob was heartfelt. The audience can easily connect with the protagonist and is carried through his journey of despair and the people around him that offer no solace. The cast had brought the dialog from Ryan to life completing the vision of this sad tale. This film is exclusively distributed on Kickstarter digitally and the campaign will finance its theatrical release. This movie needs to be shared as it is a beautiful piece of cinematography with a grueling story to tell.