Hollywood Antiwar Diatribe

Rating: 1/10 (4 November 2005)

Any United States Marine will be appalled. I expected a contemporary story about the Iraq war and was surprised with a Desert Shield/Desert Storm story. Marines are depicted as crude, lewd, and undisciplined with girlfriends and wives almost guaranteed to leave or cheat. Worse yet, your fellow-Marines will regularly threaten you with bodily harm. The first half of the movie was fairly entertaining, but the second half was nothing but a disjointed antiwar political statement. Real Marines would never leave their brethren to wander aimlessly in the desert. Hollywood's "message" comes through loud and clear. Save your money.