An over-rated PRO-WAR movie!

Rating: 7/10 (11 March 2010)

well to be fair, this is not my favourite sort of film - war movie, hand-held camera, grainy, almost colourless film. It was certainly suspenseful in parts, but for me it was a little too long... I'd clearly got the message of the addictive nature of the adrenaline-fueled rush of war, long before the movie was over. So I found myself a little bored by it all in the last half hour. Now I am all for women's rights and us being recognized as formidable equals, but I have to confess that I was disappointed that this is the first movie that has got a woman the top award for direction.... because a more blokey film could not have been made! And I too see it as a PRO-WAR film and what's more a PRO-IRAQI-WAR film! There is not a whiff of femininity in this film! Or am I stereo-typing what I think what should be the kind of movies made by women. It's just that I believe that in such a male-dominated industry there are more than enough of these films being made. As I write this though, I reflect, DOES this movie illustrate that Kathryn Bigelow IS a formidable equal in the industry!