Saving Private Brigham

Rating: 3/10 (12 September 2005)

Not an awful movie, but this one is somewhat dull and predictable. The characters are straight out of central casting - the farm boy, the guy from Brooklyn, etc. A great deal of the picture involves trekking through the forest while loudly chatting - probably not the best of survival skills during wartime. There are no surprises in this movie- when the sarge gets wistful and talks of the beauty of the French countryside, you know that he will be shot ASAP; and of course Deacon upon his death will see the civilians he accidentally killed (The six people you don't WANT to meet in Heaven.)
A bigger problem with this movie is that it is over-rated because it seems to be very popular with the LDS community who have skewed both the ratings here and at NetFlix. I'm sure that the Scientologists all thought that "Battlefield Earth" was greatest picture ever made also. Those of us who can separate our religion from our entertainment may find this film a disappointment.