A war movie about people in War, not about battles

Rating: 8/10 (9 July 1999)

I'm so glad to have finally seen this movie at last! To be honest, I was quite confused in the beginning and did get bored, but after about 30 somewhat minutes I was finally able to catch up with the movie.
After seeing the movie, I have the feeling that this movie is not really about war, but rather about how people react in war, particularly those on the front line;how they experience life,death, fear, separation, love, friendship, hatred...etc. And this is how the movie capture my mind. I wish I could have seen it on video and then see it in theater, just because the movie does take a while for me to catch on and without the remote control of rewind, I don't know how am I going to achieve it.
One more complain(sort of, though I understand the director must be under pressure to use some big name movie stars in this movie)---individual characters in this movie doesn't seem to matter in this movie--so I felt it is a bit of a waste to use excellent actors for roles that only last a few moment-also, you do wonder what happen to them, especially if you happen to recognize most of them; say, what happen to the John Cuscak character after the middle of the movie; or who is George Clooney really playing in the movie?
Anyway this is still a very good and heartfelt movie. A 7.5/10 votes