excellent commentary on Gulf War Mk I

Rating: 9/10 (24 June 2006)

Initially, I expected a lot more action.
But as the movie progressed, I was glad there was close to none, as the tensions between the soldiers, and the waiting builds to a climactic anti-climax (sic) that in my eyes makes the movie so much better than any fancy effects and grand action sequences could possibly do.
Remembering what it was like to follow the build-up to the rather short war, the media sequences are rather funny as they add to the surreal feeling of "Vietnam-light" where the media are seemingly omnipresent, but compared to Vietnam they are also impotent. (In GW Mk I there was a "media pool" and I remember the most we saw for rather a long time was planes taking off and landing).
9 out of 10 in my book for very good directing by Mr Mendes, and all round good performances by the cast