boring and pretentious monologues

Rating: 3/10 (17 February 2010)

This one starts sooo slow, and goes really nowhere... The most annoying thing about the whole movie is that you just don't care about any of the characters (at least I didn't) as the story just hops from one to another and back without you really getting to know the character. The other most annoying thing is the pretentious overwritten dialog, a lot of times it is spoken with such an slow overacted southern tone just to make you think the monologue is any good and deep (the 'narration' or what the character is thinking). The regular spoken dialogs between characters is also not that interesting.. And how about overacting of some actors who hoped to get an Oscar with it.. The movie runtime is about 170minutes, but most time is wasted on useless pan's and slow dialogs/monologues.. Also some scenes where so overly 'look at this' and really had nothing really to add to the story.
If they had tightened the script, concentrated the amount of characters to follow it could have been one hell of a movie..
The war-action is well done, but because of the slow pace of the rest it really makes you not care anymore or really excited..
It's nothing like 'apocalypse now', 'saving private ryan', 'Full metal jacket' or any other kind of war-movie I have seen, it's just a 170 minutes long boring movie...