A man-centric war movie mess

Rating: 1/10 (14 January 2015)

I had two major problems with this movie.
The first would be that the wife character has no personality, no job, no family and no inner life. She is totally flat and all we see her do is drink some shots, read a magazine in the middle of the day and wear lingerie. After that she gets married and becomes a baby incubator for the main character. I found this one dimensional female portrayal to be so ridiculous it was offensive. If women are going to be portrayed in movies they should be more than flat cut-outs from Esquire magazine. The second part of the movie was supposed to focus on their relationship, which is couldn't do because the wife wasn't a real person.
My second problem was the child torture and death scenes. I understand that war is violent and that this movie was trying to 'realistically' portray the horror of war but I think that could have been achieved by the first two death scenes. The second child death scene was overkill and made the movie unpleasant to watch. There are far better ways to portray the horrors of war that by showing graphic violence against children. I didn't find it entertaining at all.
This movie is unrealistic, unpleasant to watch, has crappy character development and couldn't suspend disbelief for me. The editing was terrible, the story didn't flow and again, unless you like watching kids get tortured and killed I would skip this one. My husband is in the military and loves war movies and he hated this one just as much as I did. I would have given it zero stars if I could.