If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

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

Courage Under Fire (1996): Dir: Edward Zwick / Cast: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Scott Glenn, Lou Diamond Phillips, Matt Damon: War drama about being under pressure as the truth bears down. Set during the Gulf War and starring Denzel Washington who gives orders to fire upon a tank only to discover to his utter horror that it was American. Unable to forgive himself he seeks refuge through alcohol. He is eventually given an assignment to investigate the metal of honor that is to be given to the daughter of a female helicopter pilot who died in battle. Director Edward Zwick tenses the situation through flashbacks. He previous made such films as Glory and Legends of the Fall. Washington is well cast as a man hindered by guilt yet through this investigation he may find forgiveness and peace. Meg Ryan plays the female pilot unlike her normal romantic roles. We know that she dies in battle but does she earn the metal? Lou Diamond Phillips delivers a tense performance as a squadron who was on edge with Ryan and is driven further over the edge when questioning begins. Scott Glenn is cardboard as Washington's adviser. This is an early film for Matt Damon who will go on the following year to heavy acclaim. While the film is well crafted, viewers may be divided due to separate genres but theme regards living with someone's death. Score: 7 ½ / 10

A United States Army officer (Denzel Washington), despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander (Meg Ryan)'s worthiness for the Medal of Honor.Let's talk about casting for a moment. Bronson Pinchot is an interesting casting choice, though his role is small enough that it really does not matter. Michael Moriarty is interesting, too, if for no other reason than his strong conservative beliefs. How a conservative and a liberal view this movie could be very different...Lastly, Lou Diamond Phillips is incredible. He is probably most associated with "La Bamba", but that is probably selling him short. Here he has a great emotional range, and when he comes into the story, everything gets kicked up a notch.

Sorry, but I cannot stomach a movie that is pro-military when Meg Ryan, a devout Democrat and worshiper of John Kerry, the war-hater and devout liar, and Denzel Washington, a worshiper of President Obama and a devout Democrat who is said to be a devout Christian. One cannot be both...in 2011, the Democrats voted NO to have God inserted in their convention, in spite of the chairman's blatant lie; just one of 100 reasons.So, after my ranting, what about the movie? It is too hard to believe any of it because the actors are not sincere in true life. It would be like having an openly gay person portray Rudolph Valentino unless the movie was a comedy. Courage Under Fire does not pass as a comedy unless one forces one's mind to the point of insanity to see liberal war-hating actors and actresses pretend to be pro-military.

I've seen this movie many years ago and remember i wasn't impressed by it. This was the movie that sunk Meg Ryan for me. I just saw it again and no, it's not worth remembering:I think its starts being lame with the story itself. Why on earth does it have to be a woman? If they wouldn't have put a woman in the center and obviously even worse, cast totally wrong, then the story could actually be interesting, elaborating on different views on the same event. But no, someone decided it had to be 'emancipated', then cast wrong, then pile up a load of unbelievable facts (like downing a tank with a fuel barrel from a helicopter under fire, yea right...) Also unbelievable is the fact that one guy can't stand the truth, even though he had no part in what happened, since he was injured. The other goes on drugs, even though he had no time to think about, let alone react to the lie the third one says. Which commits suicide all of a sudden, when urged to tell the truth, even though his life is going pretty well. And all this is investigated by someone that unknowingly killed a friend in combat, under fire, bla bla. The guy has a wife, kids, great job, status, money, house, and so on, but he can't cope with this accident?It's not all bad. You probably won't fall asleep, but when you find yourself rooting for the alleged bad guy, you know something is very wrong. Go night train go!