Unbelievable

Rating: 4/10 (6 July 2011)

I'm not a US Iraqi veteran or a soldier - I don't even know any soldiers. Neither am I from the middle east and don't know anyone from there but even to me it was clear that this film was complete BS. The bomb in the car scene, disobeying orders like that, the firefight at night, the desert shoot out... It was all completely ridiculous. I can only imagine how former Iraqis or veterans feel.
I couldn't believe this film got best picture. The reviews are so disappointing to me. Reading some of them is making me start to believe that I'm actually more intelligent than a lot of other people - or the people that are reviewing this film here anyway.
It's still a film worth watching, some of the cinematography and scenes were shot OK (even with all the continuity errors) and it was interesting to see some of the gear the guys use as well as the terrain the work in. I thought the main actor did well also - he carried a lot of it for me - made me see it through to the end. It's just such a pity because it could have been so much more.
I think that the director Bigelow worked on the script. While she deserves credit for some of the shots she should be lambasted for allowing that script to be used in the end-product.
This gets an Oscar, while Transformers 3 breaks box office records? Cmon guys, surely we can do better than this. Remember the Shawshank Redemtion? Movies from the 50s were better than these ones. Am starting to believe that we're allowing the wrong people to have children on this planet.