What Idiot Green-lighted This?

Rating: 1/10 (9 May 2008)

Well...you are willing to sit through the credits at the end of every movie. You know someone's mom can point, yell, and be proud. But on this is one, I would bet mom's of all the cast and crew wish they could get their kid's names erased from the cinema board. You see bad movies all the time. But this one is like really bad.
You just have to wonder what idiot film executive decided to put a British stage director in charge of making a film about the US Marine Corps. I'm not a Marine, but anyone can see that this film is designed to portray that organization in a negative way that does not represent reality. Director Mendes is celebrated for his work in the stage production of "Cabaret" and the movie "American Beauty". What brain dead movie exec decided he was at the top of the list to make a war film? I think that if you wanted to make sure that this story was told wrong...hire a director with no clue about the subject!!! Hollywood....we all love those great movies you create that make us dream and take us to wonderful places we otherwise would not be able to experience. But on this one, you just flat out blew it... and quite obviously on purpose....for some kind of cause that very few of could care less about. Again, I'm not in the military, but I am at least smart enough to know who keeps us safe and free.
There is a rule in movie making called "Truth in film". This film completely ignored that rule. Hopefully the Executive Director has been shafted the way I felt after paying for an admission ticket to see this junk!