Propaganda leaves a bad taste.

Rating: 1/10 (8 February 2015)

This movie, while it may have been an excellent film if it were completely and utterly fictional. The fact that it is based on a true story and is suppose to be a biography of sorts makes it seem you will get a more real view of everything. Not be left with the feeling they are trying to make a war criminal look like a hero.
There are good people out there in the army, in every army in fact. However, the particular man this was about was a liar and a monster. Let's look at his "kill count" to start. He has said that he killed people after Hurricane Katrina during looting from atop the super dome. The problem with that is the fact that no one was reported as shot by sniper rounds, a soldier or any good person would not kill anyone over looting and he would have been seen atop the dome by somebody. Self claimed unrealistic kills begin to paint the picture of a liar.
He has also said that he'd have killed anyone with a Quran if he could. That is not something a hero would say. More like a terrorist.
Mine and many who've seen this film all agree, our problem is not with the movie its self, it's a decent film. But it has been based off of a "true story" with a very skewed view in the form of propaganda. He was no hero and it should have not tried painting him as so. So because it is supposed to be a biography film of sorts that did nothing to tell the true story, it gets a very poor rating.
(Note to anyone who would say this review is not helpful: Stop being a patriot for just a moment and realise that this film is nothing but propaganda and for the genre they made the movie, it falls short of the truth).