War is a Drug

Rating: 7/10 (8 January 2010)

This movie doesn't have the necessary ingredients for being a War Classic. No anti-war pro-peace speech, no stellar performances, no moving i-want-to-go-to-my-mother-and-i-hate-this-war emotions, no hurricane of bullets and cataclysm-type bombardment. But what the movie offers are tense moments. You shake, you flinch and you are there, yet you don't want to be there. Set in the backdrop of Iraq war, the movie shows the extreme actions of the bomb disposal squad. How I hate to do that job!
May be for cinematographic value, many critics term it as 'a near perfect' movie. For me it is just a good 2 hours of edge-of-the-seat war thriller, and that's about it.
(Originally posted @ weirdo-on-movies.blogspot.com