Nothing new here

Rating: 7/10 (18 August 2006)

This movie is really quite superfluous.
Apart from the beautiful cinematography and the great music which raise this movie a little above the mediocre, there's really nothing much to comment on. Great acting by Jake Gyllenhaal, yeah.
A bunch of bored marines in the desert, waiting for the war to begin, then going home again. Well. Nothing new here.
We already know what happens in basic training, having seen plenty of movies and read tons of books.
And those who have read newspapers already know what really happened in the Gulf war. Um, well, those that have read the non-US-newspapers of course.
So, I must admit that I was quite bored by this movie.