Cheesy and stupefyingly unoriginal

Rating: 1/10 (2 February 2015)

SPOILERS BELOW!!! I cannot believe this movie is rated as high as it is.
You will be able to predict every bit of this re-tread war movie - nothing is original. Go ahead and skip the first 40 minutes because I can summarize it in a few sentences: Mel Gibson can't act, nor can he pull off a southern accent. Mel's character has a doting wife and five children and he prays really hard so god can let him kill bad guys and military life is tough on the whole family. And there are other wives, too. One is a minority and one is retarded.
Then Mel prays with his soldiers like a kid prays to Santa. Then they go to a golf course in Northern California and pretend they are in Viet Nam. The worst set/location I've ever seen in a war movie. They didn't even try - unless you think Viet Nam is mostly 6-inch tall grass and a few 15-foot birch trees planted by a landscaper a week before.
The filmmakers were obviously aware that the golf course didn't look very real, which really blew the cinematography. They had to frame every shot so that it didn't reach beyond 20 feet and reveal the potted trees they drag around as the "jungle." Along the way, they throw in every single war movie cliché you could ever imagine and a person who has never seen the movie will probably be able guess most of the lines before they are said.
This is trash.