Do not praise this boring film with your shallow patriotism

Rating: Null/10 (19 November 2016)

I think Andrew Garfield might be the worst candidate who we could deem as an actor. I've watched every film he played as the leading character, including he masked and covered under a Spiderman suit. Yet every film I saw I just got the same feeling of wrong cast in a wrong movie. This guy as an actor to play so many different roles but no matter what, he just showed himself as a young guy who never could keep his mouth closed tightly enough but always mindlessly half opened with his lower lip further out than his upper lip, a guy with a abnormal long crane-like long and thin neck and a thick but not likable hairs on his head. He always gave off a nerdy and dumb expression no matter what he played. All of these shortcomings didn't fade or transform better when he grew older. There's no way that I could convince myself to believe any character he played but a stronger certainty of wrong casting jobs again and again.
The whole screenplay just looks hollow, shallow and stereotyped. A trick that have been used thousand times to patch up a got-nothing-tell story, a popular and trendy way to advertise a sales pitch that this is a serious movie based on "True Event" or "True Character". But once these laughable words were used, only two things could immediately assured: A) There actually nothing to tell, i.e., No Beef, B) A certainty of a lousy movie.
So this format we got here is like this: Two kid brothers growing up in a dirt poor family with a retired soldier father, a do-nothing drunk and a non-caring fatherhood; with an opposite loving and care mother, also a loyal church goer. The brother almost killed his kid brother during a playful fight in front of their parents when it became out-of-control. Then this brother repented himself by facing a Christian Bible picture on the wall, focusing on those hollow "Thou shalt not kill" dogma. And then that biblical crap became his one and only belief and faith that he later carried with it into Army boot camp. Then again, since the screenplay got actually nothing too much to say, a large segment of this film was forcefully to describe how this guy with such unpractical and anti-American valued Patriotism "Thou Shalt Not Kill" firm belief and principle to survive in the training camp. Again, more already used hundred times formula was borrowed again: A loud mouthed, always yelling and screaming Sergent and a bunch of tight-arsed high ranking officers, a beating, an almost being kicked out or even court-marshaled scene, a strong protest of his right as a qualified soldier who never wanted to hold a rifle to aim and kill then ultimate enemy, the Japanese soldiers. Then blah, blah and blah. Fighting scenes, his suddenly found unbelievable valor to save his brother-in-arms again and again in the battle field as a medic. And of course, casting a beautiful actress as his love, an eye-candy for the unfortunate viewers to ensure some possibility of increasing the box office....Supporting this hollow film with annoying patriotic background music...happily married and stayed together until his wife's early demise....Then of course, old faces in retrospection (a must) showed up on the screen in the final to certify that this is a true story.
What we got here is just like branded powdered milk formula for your babies with an image of a not-quite-so-young-now funny face guy with thin and long neck and always mindlessly open mouth. Drink this milk, it's good for your health and your continued growth of your blind Patriotism.