Compelling, thrilling, funny, innovative... Welcome to the Suck

Rating: 10/10 (5 November 2005)

I Just got back from seeing it with a friend, and I have got to say: it is one of the greatest films I have ever seen! What makes it so good is how it is very different, and not what one would expect from a war movie. This was more drama, dark comedy, and anti war than anything. It kind of felt like watching Full metal jacket, only with better character structure. This was really a refreshing thing to see a film of this type that makes you laugh with the Well crafted usage of the F word (yes, although it is used a LOT in it, it doesn't sound too bad the way it's used in this film), and other insults, and it grips you emotionally, because you can almost feel for yourself the unforgiving events that the characters must go through, it feels like we are watching the war from a journalist's video camera, it's realistic.
The characters were very well portrayed. Jake Gyllenhaal remains one of my favorite young actors, and he plays the main character so well. Jamie Foxx was great, funny, and believable throughout, you can't help but love his character right off the bat.
The movie is so awesome, you'll be loving it, just within the first 2 minutes, with the hilariously brilliant open scene in boot camp, which is a direct homage to Full Metal Jacket, which also happens to be one of the greatest war movies I have seen. This is a powerful film, and you will not be disappointed.