The huge letdown

Rating: 1/10 (17 March 2006)

This movie should have been titled "the huge letdown". It continually builds up towards possible suspense and action, but retreats every time. You would expect a war movie to actually contain, well "war". Instead you are fed building suspense with no climax for over two hours. This movie can be compared to ordering pizza for the sake of smelling the toppings, it's pointless, just eat the stupid thing. Why rent a war movie when it does not contain war? It's like wiping before you poop, it don't make any sense. At this point some red-neck will interrupt with this non-sense "well, at least it was realistic". Excuse me, have you ever seen any real war footage? It looks more like Saving Private Ryan, not jar head. What a joke this movie turned out to be. The self proclaimed "realist" at this point will sarcastically say "well, war is not always filled with gun shots, some times they will go several weeks without shooting a single round". Yeah well listen to me Mr. realist, at the end of those empty weeks there is gun fire. The suspense of being at war is always followed by some sort of battle. This movie had roughly about 5 minutes of actually "battle" scenes. All of which were air strikes, boring. In the end it's about the us wanting to watch gore, violence and seeing things get blown up. I wanted to see limbs fly, not a bunch of idiot, undisciplined soldiers party and act like animals. Keep your money, rent something else.