One of the five worst movies ever made

Rating: 1/10 (21 February 2010)

This film depicts individual soldiers acting irrationally and completely independent of any authority. There are no officers in this war--each man does whatever he wants; there is no cooperation, reliance, or humanity. No actual military procedures are followed; each man makes up his own. The "enemy" is portrayed as non-human, and largely irrelevant. These soldiers have enough to do fighting with each other.
The film is entirely unsympathetic, and a wonderful example of species self-hatred (if we assume those who made it are indeed human).
Nine Oscar nominations for this picture is an insult, not only to other war movies, but to war itself.
I can only conclude that, if this picture accurately describes our forces in Iraq, we not only deserve to lose the war, but we should be required to learn a great deal about civilization from the Arab Middle East before complaining about it.