Intriguing, but stops short

Rating: 8/10 (31 January 2009)

It seems that people are either hating this film or loving it. Well, I think I can easily sum this up for anyone considering watching this.
It's basically "Generation Kill", just with different characters and not enough time to develop all the characters. The movie was over two hours and yet I wanted to learn more about the characters. I was really drawn into the characters and there was a lot of depth that could have been played upon, yet it seems a lot of story remains on the cutting room floor. Besides the characters, there seemed to be a few sub-plots to the story that were not being told and it really left me wanting more. Perhaps this really should have been told in a mini-series format, because some things are just left hanging and you need to fill in the details yourself. Maybe if it was a mini-series though, the Generation Kill producers would cry foul, because they're that close in format to one another. It makes me wonder which production came first or was there some collaboration between them?
Bottom line, if you liked Generation Kill, then you'll like this without a doubt. It's production is the same caliber and it's only missing the length to call it a true squeal.