It was boring, really

Rating: 6/10 (4 April 2006)

I can understand how this film got so many people to like it. It's a well done film, realistic, no overdramatisation, no special effects... In fact I can imagine a Japanese movie that deals with training samurai then telling them they're obsolete. But until one gets to the basic idea of this two hour movie, one gets terribly bored.
Maybe I was expecting something better, more intellectual, or at least more aggressive as an anti war movie. This was only a presentation of the mindset of US soldiers, nothing more, nothing less, thus boring.
More than that, the characters were not really developed. OK, these guys were all different, all "jarheads", but who were they, really? Stripping a character of everything non-marinesque does not define it as a marine.
As a consequence, I am grading this movie low.