Give me a break

Rating: Null/10 (10 June 2002)

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I understand that the filmmakers had put lots of energy into making this film memorable and perhaps philosophical. But it simply doesn't work! All I have seen in this movie are several separate stories with the same protagonist. Except these, there is nothing at all! The film absolutely lacks coherence; the film jumps from a scene to another, but leaves the audience in the fog, not being able to understand what the hell has happened! And to this day, I still don't know why a Willem Dafoe was needed. Needless to day, Tom Cruises's work is easy enough: sitting on a wheelchair, whining for a couple of hours. Somehow I want to be him: earning a dime like he did is tough cool.
The message the film carries is simple and easily understood. Yet, the writer of the screenplay apparently had no idea how to put it more naturally, and spoilt the movie.
Want to see memorable war-movies? Pick up Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line. Leave Born on the Fourth of July on the shelf.