Good film but nothing exceptional

Rating: 7/10 (31 January 2015)

Massive Eastwood fan and this is a good war film, gets into the mind of this American hero, but it isn't as good as the Hurt Locker, won't be winning Eastwood any Oscars, and does not have anything extra or special about it. What it does portray is the madness and the insanity of it all and where they was no end objective in what was trying to be achieved and of which I don't think anyone t this day knows what was intended, and that comes across well in the film and the struggle that injured vets have, and the question as to what was it all for.
Good film, but does not have that bit extra special which often Eastwood can bring (Letters from Iwo Jima was his touch of excellence on war and a film that should have won the Oscar than an inferior remake of a Hong Kong film).