Powerfully poignant...

Rating: 10/10 (16 July 2014)

It's impossible for me to watch this one without choking up again and again and again- and I've seen it half a dozen times. There aren't a lot of movies that are flawless, but, for me, this is one of them. It works so powerfully on an Emotional level that very little else matters- it's overwhelming. Matthew Broderick as the baby-faced Shaw is matched dramatic moment for dramatic moment by the likes of Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman and Andre Braugher and Cary Elwes- and the gut-wrenching score by James Horner drives home the point(s) further still. In its depiction of the utter INSANITY of War- we see men charging headlong at one another, all of them armed and determined to kill- it's about as accurate a reenactment as one could hope for. And all for what, finally? Nebulous notions of Nationality? Belief systems? Whatever the reason(s), many of those men (and women) believed that they were going on to an even greater GLORY.