After seeing this, you wonder why people do it

Rating: Null/10 (20 March 2003)

This movie got to me. At the beginning it all seems to be a standard war movie, but once you get halfway it turns grim.
The characters are well worked-out, I could identify with most of them, and every death/wounding felt sort of personal. I started to wonder why people do this to each other.
I didn't watch the movie at the cinema, because after 'Behind Enemy Lines' I didn't feel like seeing another American propaganda film, but now it seems I should have gone. This movie shows that even Americans are mortal, and that when things go badly wrong they also can use help from other countries. In that way the movie was quite refreshing.
There are some graphically gory bits in the movie, but not too many, and most of them are over before your mind registers them properly.
Some bits of the movie seemed a bit unrealistic, with soldiers walking upright with bullets digging into the dirt all around them, but hey, there are probably people out there who would do that.
At first it seems that keeping up with 4 or 5 different parties in one movie could get too much, but due to the great directing and editing the story is easy to follow.
I suggest people go and see this movie if they think war is a bloodless game. Other people should also go see it, because it's a good movie.