As always Sean Penn delivers...

Rating: Null/10 (11 September 2004)

When I first saw this I was fairly young, not fully able to understand everything. But what I did remember was Michael J. Fox actually acting(!) and Sean Penn as always making a memorable, haunting performance.
I remember this as a good warmovie, focusing not so much on war as it did on what war does to people. When I picked it up again I was looking forward to be appalled, disgusted, moved, etc. etc. I was, and that partly because of the dialogue at the end of the movie. When Michael has returned he was ranting about human nature, responsibility in the lines of a "Carry Bradshaw"-summary of an episode of "Sex and the city": "could it be that...-" or "Maybe what we're all looking for...-", aka pretentious bullshit. But on the other hand it's a well made film, one of DePalma's better, that does haunt you at times and as always Sean Penn portrays a fu(ked up young man with great precision and delivers yet another memorable, excellent performance. You rock Sean...:)
3/5