I think my ex still has scars on his arm from my nails...

Rating: 10/10 (13 October 2002)

This movie blew me away. Literally. I staggered out of the theater. It has everything I think a war movie should have, and nothing that it shouldn't. No love story. Very little background. No apologies. Most of all, I didn't feel like I was being yanked in one direction or the other. I didn't feel like it was horribly anti-war, or pro-war. Rather, it simply showed you what war is like. Not a lot of character development, but that's how it is. You realize quickly that what matters is not whether that guy over there has a mom, cat, and girlfriend back at home who are going to miss him, but simply that he is a human being, and he is putting his life on the line for something that he doesn't really understand. I would say more than anything, this movie is pro-solder, pro-human. These guys are shipped to a country they know nothing about, to fight in a war they didn't choose to start, with people they don't know very well, and they get killed for it, and the only thing that matters is right there, right then, living through that moment, and saving the guy next to you, even if you just met him. These things, this movie did a very good job of illustrating.