Based on a true story?

Rating: 9/10 (28 May 2017)

I have noticed that movies that claim to be based on a true story generally have very high IMDb scores. It seems that people are so tired of special effects and senseless action movies that they are seeking for some meaning, a morale, a spiritual journey or otherwise something more connected to real life. The problem I have with this is that most of the time people watch those movies like it's a documentary, not realizing that claiming it is based on a true story says nothing about the extent in which it is actually the case. It can be less than 1% On the other hand, this movie did not claim to be based on a true story, yet there is more truth to the realities of war than many of these movies claiming to be based on true events. We depend so much on media, and this media is so self-censored to not put off viewers or patriotism that the public simply does not get to see what happens on the ground. Clean war does not exist. There is nothing more civil about high-tech nukes than cutting heads off or suicide bombings. The end result is the same, just seems more appetizing when all they show on TV are the fumes of smoke rather than the body parts scattered all over the place.
Face it, the Iraq war was started based on lies of WMD, and as a result the middle east has been destabilized, set on fire and the fire has spread and eventually lead to ISIS. Were those who started the Iraqi war on false premises with hundreds of thousands of deaths as a result, ever brought to justice? What legitimacy do we have left to call ourselves the good guys if we can't even bring our own crimes against humanity to justice? How can democracy possibly work when media is failing to show truth? It's a farce. This movie does not even come close to showing the true ugliness of war and the industry that it is. After all, it was still supposed to be funny, and it was. But it was far more than that and for that I give 9/10.
Spoiler alert: There were a lot of memorable moments in the movie, but the one I will remember is where the guy finds out that the grenade he had launched had killed the child. People are slaughtered like its a video game, and for what? Nothing is more absurd than the reality of war. And nothing is more ugly and anti-civil than war. No society making profit off of war van be considered civil, by definition. The bad guys are among us.