BORING!!

Rating: 1/10 (25 December 2001)

It's not often I return a video to the store so acutely aware of the 3 hours and $7 I have just wasted. Don't let the big names fool you, this is not one for the awards. The storyline is non-existent - there is nothing worse than hitting the credits totally lost, baffled and unfulfilled. This is a shame with some really great actors in there, namely John Cusack & Nick Stahl. It is nothing less than an attempt to take the war experience into the movie theatre gone completely wrong. A movie in this genre should horrify and sadden. It should send tingles up the spine, not the audience to sleep. If you want a real war film, not this psychological, depressing excuse, I suggest you try "The Anzacs" with Paul Hogan or "Gallipoli" with Mel Gibson. If a less Australia point-of-view is needed try the classics like "The Dambusters", or "Bridge over the River Kwai".