A story of Jarheads and the other "forgotton" war

Rating: 7/10 (6 November 2005)

Jarhead defies the notion that you need the kind of "action" that Saving Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down had to be a great movie. If you are looking for a movie with tons of fighting, this is not it. Instead it is the story not of fighting but waiting and soldiers coping with boredom. There are many a scene of dismembered Iraqi bodies , but there really is no "killing" in the general sense. That is the point of the movie , there was no killing by most of the ground soldiers during Desert Storm , and many of them were really unsure of why they where there. This shows a lot throughout the movie when the soldiers are trying to grasp why they are in the desert, and what they do to deal with not having a war to fight. There were 148 battle deaths and 145 accidental deaths during Desert Storm , and those brave soldiers deserve to be remembered just as much as the ones in Afghanistan (the other fortgotton war) and Iraq. Overall this was a great movie that hammered home the point of what soldiers go through in war, and the grim reminder of what kind of casulties modern war causes.