Very well executed

recommended

Expected more

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

I know many people loved this show and don't want to hear otherwise, but this is my review and my honest opinion was I did not enjoy it. It starts with a lot of build-up and build-up and as I was waiting for a climax I realized the point of this show wasn't going to be a climax, but the life as a marine in between.I can see how if I'd served in the military this show would be fascinating. I would warn that it has little drama outside the day-to-day regimen marines in combat go through. The show triumphantly portrays how time as a marine probably is, but I don't think that is as exciting for most non-servicemen.I'm in finance, and I did not go see The Accountant expecting to get an in-depth lesson on the effects of exchange rate fluctuation on inter-company account reconciliation, and wisely the director didn't give us one. (hey I would've loved it, but would've been in the small small minority!) The show looked and sounded great. Acting was fairly good. And the setting felt as real as it gets. It dawned on me halfway through the show that there were no normal dudes—every single marine had a stereotypical quirk about them- the bonehead, the talker, the Brazilian, the gay one, the fearless one, muscle guy, the paranoid idiot leader, etc etc.In the end, the lulls were just too much to overcome and by the time I finished the series I was kind of relieved. 5/10

Brilliant war drama.The story of 1st Marine Reconnaissance Battalion's participation in the second Allied invasion of Iraq, in 2003. Seen through the eyes of Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright, who was embedded with the Battalion and upon whose book the series is based.Though dramatized, this is pretty much a warts-and-all account of a military unit in combat. Hardly glamorous, it shows well the problems they face, both external and internal. Not all drama and explosions - there are many great comedic moments, especially in the dialogue.Accurate, engrossing and entertaining.

This is certainly no Band of Brothers and the drive to watch it is more out of a sense of morbid curiosity. But what is does reinforce is the concept of basic stupidity of the average Marine, and the lost reason and sanity of a few intelligent Marines in an otherwise testosterone laden landscape of illiteracy and limited vocabulary. I would like to think that this is a piece of fiction, but I fear this is , as others have said, true to life. It makes me sad to be an American if this is a true and actual depiction of what it is to be a Marine. if this is true it does not give one a sense that we will win anything based on intelligence, but rather by brute force. I suspect you could consider this a sanitized version of what the Defense Department didn't want you to see during the real war. None of thee men are heroes as you would find in Band of Brothers, where people rallied to a well defined enemy and the country made huge sacrifices to support the war effort.

I don't really have my two cents to add to what others already said: it's simply a masterpiece. So it is this simple: get a bunch of Marines (or any kind of soldier, for that matter), reconstruct what they actually did in Iraq, and there's the perfect war movie. Sounds simple, however a reconstruction is worth nothing if it's not painstakingly accurate, from the slightest detail on uniforms to road signs and background characters. Generation Kill truly achieves this. A word of advice: non-native speakers will have serious problems with understanding dialogs, especially if they are not into military jargon and slang. Don't even think about watching it without subtitles.