A story without conflict is boring

Rating: 2/10 (10 November 2005)

First off, I'd like to say that Jarhead had a promising premise with promising actors. Now I'd like to say that these two things do not make for good movie watching. These characters don't have a conflict. At first there was something, or so I thought, with Troy and Swoff. Then that disappeared.
1) Swoff could've left Desert Storm. He wasn't there by force. 2) Random horses. WTF? 3) Troy dies. Why? How does this affect Swoff?
There's some bad boy behavior between dumb ass #1 and Swoff, but that's about it. Then the fire scene where we have a hot hot hot glimpse of Jack in two Santa Claus hats.
Other than that, it was BORING. I want action. I want conflict. I don't care about soldiers unless there's something to care about.