A terrific film

Rating: 9/10 (5 November 2005)

Quite an amazing movie.
Certainly not an average run-of-the-mill war film, this movie strays from the norm and does it truthfully and often times painfully. Gyllenhall is haunting along with the rest of the cast, and this has to be one of the most personal war movies I've ever seen.
Disturbing on many levels, this film is as heartfelt and poignant as it is vexatious and torturous. Jamie Foxx delivers another solid performance, but the movie is held together by Gyllenhall and the other young marines comradery and dialogue. I enjoyed the ending, even though the true theme of the movie is hard to define, it is definitely worth the time and money. This was an awesome film.