All Wrong

Rating: 1/10 (15 August 2012)

This movie's success literally depends on the ignorance of the audience watching it.
I can understand that non-veterans might find it somewhat entertaining. There is drama. There is action (albeit completely unrealistic). My problems with this movie could fill a warehouse, but they've been verbalized by many other veterans of the Iraq war, so I'll keep it short. This film requires that you have an extreme desire to connect with veterans of America's current conflicts. When you look back at a war movie based on the legitimate exploration of emotion (such as Platoon), you find that it takes decades for the purveyor of that emotion to fully capture the message they wish to instill in us. This movie is nothing more than an attempt to cash in on the public desire to experience modern warfare before another more meticulously researched movie could be made. Obviously the "Best Picture" nomination has sealed this film's fate in the eyes of the majority of movie viewers but, I urge you, as a former Non-Commisioned Officer in the United States Army Infantry deployed to Iraq, and a serious student to film, do not believe the hype. This movie is all wrong and, as most veterans of the Global War on Terrorism will tell you, its an insult to the men and women who have served and given their lives.