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Rating: 6/10 (3 January 2015)

Heroic tale of valour in the face of huge odds.
The battle scenes in this are great, and the final conflict is legendary. As usual the enemy runs into bullets, while bullets run away from the hero, but it did have an emotional kick.
There is moral ambiguity, so it avoids the boredom of goodies v baddies. But the scene in an apartment with a mother and daughter, intended to intensify the characters, doesn't work.
Tracer bullets are amazing on screen, but not a single frame of this equals the cow scene in Come And See. The score is full of strong choral stuff, so it gives an epic feel.
Overall this needed less of the morals, especially the bible riffs, and more lunacy. I don't think Brad Pitt does lunacy.