Stunning

Rating: Null/10 (1 February 2002)

A fantastic movie that avoids all the cliches of the 'highly organised elite fighting force' story and instead in unashamed to show the audience why every soldier in the world is terrified of having the Americans on their side in a war. Scott shows in a shockingly real manner the consequences of decades of retarded jingoistic foreign policy and of a military with no idea of how to fight (and often of who they are fighting). The only thing I would question is the competence of the squaddies in the film seems far too high and totally at odds with all evidence and experience of the US Army.
It's also highly appropriate that it was rushed forward to a release date during America's latest unjustified war of oppression. More so considering that their excuse this time was an act of desperation by the dispossessed survivors of so many of their earlier indiscretions and criminal activities.