goes from promising to oh so boring.

Rating: 5/10 (6 November 2009)

Any movie with Clooney, Bridges (jr), Spacey, can't be all wrong, right? Not so fast. While the guys themselves are great, the material, which is amusing at the start, becomes repetitive and lame within the first 40 minutes. Then it's hang on and hope for redemption, which never comes.
That it's a satire I get, but since this is based on probably mostly true scenarios they ring false, and that kills it. Clooney has done controlled manic before, and Spacey is doing his serious "bad" guy routine. McEwan is along for the "not comedy" angle, and he gets to pick up his pay check and move on.
As the Army seriously went down this path we should leave the movie, sadder, but wiser. Instead we're sadder and need a Budweiser....or two or three.