Great Iraqi War Picture

Rating: 7/10 (18 March 2015)

Jarhead is a great movie by a great director Sam Mendes.
I am not a huge fan of war movies, not as I was at least. But this movie gives us the view of the soldiers on standby immediately before engaging the enemy.
In this particular case, the standby troops before the first Iraqi war. All the before action anxiety and bottled up testosterone is portrayed in a very realistic manner, with a superb performance by Jake Gyllenhaal.
The trio made by Jake, Peter Sarsgaard and Jamie Foxx elevate the movie letting us see the hardships of soldiers constrained by politics.
It is a very good war movie, in another very good example of Sam Mendes's work.