lop-sided. very lop-sided.

Rating: 1/10 (15 November 2004)

the first half is cinematic brilliance. no-one has ever come close to capturing the boot camp experience the way this film does. it's gritty. it's real. it's disturbing. but then they ship off and suddenly the movie becomes generic war film fodder. it goes from what felt like a heart-felt story to a story a friend of a friend of a friend overheard at a party while chatting up the girl by the bar. the authenticity of the first half is completely lost in the ho-hum "been there, done that better somewhere else" second half. sorry, Kubrick disappoints again.