A bit snoozy, I'm afraid

Rating: 7/10 (29 December 2010)

Jarhead is well acted and striking to look at and, if you're a Marine looking to remember what it was like to be out in Saudi during Desert Storm, I'm sure it does the job more than adequately.
Unfortunately, for the rest of us who weren't there (and with all due respect for those who were), Jarhead is a bit of a snoozefest. As if to make up for the fact that nothing much happens (even when they finally get out on patrol things are pretty uneventful much of the time), they seem to take turns going stir crazy.
You can't blame them, and one understands that this is character-based drama rather than an action movie, but I'm afraid I was bored a lot of the time, no matter how many hundreds of f-words are dropped in (which, I accept, accurately represents the mode of speech).