A bit on the strange side.

Rating: 7/10 (30 December 2012)

I was working at the movies when this came out so I remembered bits and pieces of it, but didn't ever watch it in full. (Since it was only in theaters for a few weeks.) But I really like the premise of the movie. In the same way that "Tropic Thunder" made fun of war films, this made fun of war itself, or at least the branches. I mean, George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, and Jeff frickin' Bridges, together. The cast is all amazing, and the plot is just weird enough to work. I expected this to be a tale of a journalist who gets a little bit embellishment-happy, but nope. It's totally based on some real things, and that's something that I enjoyed immensely.