Psychoanalysis and National Geographic go to War

Rating: 1/10 (23 February 2017)

If you think WW2 was a pointless endeavor, you will enjoy this film. If you have actually heard and read the statements of the brave men who fought with conviction at Guadalcanal, you will be extremely disheartened by this rewrite of history. What was a great victory against an evil and brutal aggressor has been turned into an introspective malaise full of doubt and psychological couch babble. Three hours of men overwhelmed with existential dread. If you think war movies should be filled with nostalgic flashbacks and hundreds of shots of parrots and leaves, this is your movie. It could have been decent at 90 minutes, but at 3 hours, it is excruciatingly slow and self- important. Probably the most overrated war film in history.