Felt irrelevant

Rating: Null/10 (8 November 2005)

The movie doesn't seem to have any bearing on what's going on right now. The whole thing revolved around creating these hardcore fighting machines, and then when they get their chance to kill, to "perform", they are forced to stop, thus, prevented from shooting their proverbial load.
Who can relate to this film in the current global climate? Soldiers are killed and see action over there. That's a reality going on TODAY. As a movie experience, it had it's moments and decent scenes, but overall it was boring. And the characters filled little more than a cliché mold - we had the troublemaker, the family man (Hispanic of course), the hard but wise sergeant, the troubled partner, and last but not least, the thoughtful white educated narrator leading us through it with slivers of wisdom and compassion. Man, didn't these guys see Platoon? Give me a break.