Best movie ever!

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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

You're almost guaranteed a great movie if TLJ is in it. This one didn't disappoint when I watched it last night, over 10 years after it was first released. There's something about him that no-one else has in his ability to portray emotion, when he cries you cry , it's as simple as that. Susan Sarandon is just as good as his loving wife and is so totally immersed in the part that it's hard to believe she's only acting.The movie itself is full of pulsating grief laid out against the heartlessness and cynicism that comes from being a long serving cop. It's a tough menu to pull these feelings together but the director does a fabulous job and the actors play it all to a tee.The director also does a fabulous job of layering the New Mexico scenery and the military culture into the story, it's just magic stuff. Menace and beauty all in the same scene. Can't finish this review without a mention of Josh Brolin, he doesn't figure a lot in this movie but the parts he's in crackle with his talent. One of my favourite actorsIt's a wonderful movie, even after all this time.

This movies seems to have been done pretty well. There is some heavy stuff between the lines.Tommy Lee Jones is Tommy Lee Jones. No nonsense. He has a strong sense of values and doesn't compromise and isn't easy to change. Charlie Therzon does pretty well being a cop that shrugs off blatant sexual harassment and scorn for sleeping with the boss and she is also a single mom.I don't think I understand everything that happened, but that's not to say it wasn't well done. I think it was just beyond me.I had one minor complaint that doesn't really affect my rating or the movie. I hate it when movies, or books, take the story of David vs Goliath "in the valley of Elah" and remove the part that can only explain it. There is no mention of the real reason David fought Goliath and won. Whether you believe in God or not, his belief is the only thing that can explain it. For him, he just knows that God will win the battle for him because he has lived it before. And David knows he must stand up against Goliath who slanders the name of David's God. The reason given by Hank sounds really nice, but it's not enough to explain taking on an incredible giant. Conquering fear is great, and necessary, but it's not enough to make you think you can beat Goliath because YOU can't beat Goliath.This movie was well done with good acting and a good plot. I just didn't enjoy it.

This movie deals with the serious business of war and what it does to people.It also deals with the anguish of parents, and how they try to deal with loss. When all is gone and there seems no point carrying on.As well as this there is the military and how it deals with its image and the fragility of the men it must use.The ex military father tries to find the truth behind his sons death. Despite him feeling he could do a better job than the police. Even he is caught out by the truth.The movie is slow, and serious, and even disturbing at times. However, it always keeps you interested, and is a good watch; if you are in the right mood for it.

This is a story about a man's love for his family and his country, and how both are shaken by the horrors of war. It will not be admired by those Americans who live by "my country right or wrong" and "greatest country in the world" and similar claptrap and, yes, there are still plenty of those around. The movie critics - the ones who are actually paid to do it - seem to have taken a stance to protect themselves from the aforementioned class. This movie makes America look bad, and by God they don't want to be hitched to that wagon. The acting is fine; the script good, though it wobbles in a few places;and the editing is perhaps the weak point in the show. The locations are great: tacky bars and diners; grim roadsides; grimy motels; whining freeway traffic; homes furnished by K-Mart. In short, life as most of us know it. The big questions raised here: is war now different from what it was in World War II, Korea, or even Vietnam? Is it more dehumanizing than at any time in human history? Does it make us more depraved than ever? If so, then why?