Good film but does not deserve all these awards

Rating: 7/10 (28 February 2010)

this is a good film but as i said it does not deserve all these recognitions. The nominations seems to be mostly sociopolitical due to its subject matter. Definitely the screenplay does not deserve best screenplay nomination. There was not much of a story there. Its strength was its realism but even that has some holes in it. Overall I give it a A- for what it was but compared to all the movies out there I give it a B. There are a wealth of material to use in a war movie and this film did not touch on much of them except repeating the same scene (disarming an IED) 6 or 7 times, granted it was done well but it was too redundant.