Utterly stupid...I loved it!

Rating: 7/10 (21 September 2008)

To be fair, the seven-star rating is possibly a little unfair. It's hard to know how to rate this film after seeing it only once. I laughed uproariously and that was enough.
The premise of making a more war-like atmosphere for filming a war epic was pretty good, even if the inevitable descent into an actual war-like environment was hopelessly predictable. With that out of the way, this film goes on to spoof every war epic for the last 30 years: Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Predator, Rambo, The Dirty Dozen and Forrest Gump to name but a few. There's even a hint of Proof of Life.
The film is utterly bizarre and totally brainless but all the random elements somehow hang together to make a vaguely coherent whole that is absolutely hilarious (although I'm still not sure how Tom Cruise's cameo fits in!)