disgusting, overrated, pointless

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The acting in this movie is really good.

"Will, what happened over there?"This was the last film directed by Academy Award winning producer Irwin Winkler who recently has gone back to doing what he does best: producing movies. Home of the Brave is an overly melodramatic war film that fails to connect with the audience despite its good intentions. The acting in this film is pretty bad, the script is absolutely terrible, and the direction felt too generic. The script, written by Mark Friedman, was very unsubtle, hammering us over the head with the PTSD suffered by the soldiers who returned home from Iraq. Several war films have dealt with these issues far better and in a more subtle manner than Home of the Brave does. Winkler has good intentions with this film, he doesn't try to send a political anti-war message or anything like that but rather focuses on the pain the soldiers have to face when they return home and how difficult adapting can become for them. Those noble intentions, didn't translate well into a film that was full of war clichés and terrible dialogues. It became too melodramatic and the characters were never developed realistically. It just rang false and it should've dealt with such a serious issue in a more complex manner. I couldn't connect with any of the characters in this film and was disappointed with Winkler's direction.The story follows a group of soldiers in the Iraq War who are pleased to receive the news that their tour of duty is coming to an end in two weeks. As they make plans of what they will do when they return home, they are sent on a humanitarian mission to deliver some medical supplies at a nearby village. One of the convoys is driven by Vanessa Price (Jessica Biel), while another one is guarded by Tommy Yates (Brian Presley), his hometown best friend Jordan (Chad Michael Murray), and Jamal (50 Cent). A surgeon named Will Marsh (Samuel Jackson) also accompanies them on the mission. Upon arriving at the village the unit is ambushed and several lives are lost, while others suffer psychological traumas and physical injuries. The lives of these soldiers are changed forever and once they arrive home to their families they must learn how to adjust to their "normal" lives. We see how each one of these characters have difficulty doing so as they continue to be emotionally torn by the war, while some of them continue to cross each other's path back home in Washington.Home of the Brave felt tremendously out dated despite it only being made 7 years ago. It probably has to do with the fact that this film was a bit lazy in the way they tried to tackle the subject matter. It is something we've seen in many other war movies recently that have had a much more subtle approach. This film just felt too repetitive and predictable. The performance from the cast also hurt this film tremendously and not even Samuel L Jackson could do enough to save this. There is a short cameo by Christina Ricci that really felt out of place, like many other moments in this film. The different stories didn't connect very well either and the characters were just presented in a very lazy manner. Home of the Brave has all the war clichés you can think of and doesn't present anything groundbreaking or original.

I have been looking up movies on this site and sort of trusting the masses and I have to say I am disappointed to see this movie getting such a rubbish rating and now feel like I probably should have just watched the other movies to find out for myself, rather than trusting the ratings.I personally can say that this is one of the best movies I have ever seen in my life. The other people who watched it and hated it, must like super boring movies or where having a bad day when they watched it, I really can't understand how they could give it 1 star.Anyone who likes war movies, and empathises with soldiers, will get the message and enjoy the movie. Top class.

The only spoiler I can give is this: the movie sucks! The acting, the plot and the cliché of Veterans returning home is lame. Whoever the military adviser was, should never work on a military themed movie again. Although the subject matter is important, it was handled in a format that won't help people understand but merely mock them. If you want to watch an excellent depiction of PTSD, The Best Years of Our Lives is quite spot on. It was one of the first movies to deal with, what is now known as PTSD, however it's ending which suggests that normalcy will happen only after you find a love interest gives it an easy out.

The key to this film is the scene where Vanessa (Jessica Biel) and Tommy (Brian Presley) meet in the theater. They exchange psychotropic information and sit down and talk like they have know each other their entire lives. The fact that they are strangers is irrelevant because they have more in common now that with those they have really known.If you haven't been there, you can't possible understand. It doesn't matter whether you are Will's (Samuel L. Jackson) wife or Tommy's father. You just can't know.So, you work through the pain yourself while causing damage to your family, or sometimes you can't get through it, like Jamal (50 Cent), before some trigger-happy cop does what the Iraqia couldn't.This was a subtitle film with a beautiful soundtrack that really set the mood. It wasn't cartoonish like some of the post-Vietnam pictures. It showed the pain of return. Some win, some lose, some run away.Highly recommended.