A very Good Movie

Rating: 8/10 (17 July 2002)

I am very surprised at the number of people who can write that the battle scenes seem so fictional and try to compare with Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down or other war movies. Have any of you even been in the military to make such a comment? I have 20+ years (Navy SeaBees and Army Infantry) and feel most of the action was very good. As one reviewer puts "The battle scenes did not show us anything new". Should Wallace had made up unrealistic battles scenes. I think too many of you are wanting the special effects to rule the movie. I will agree that some of the dialogue is "hammed" up but maybe some of you critics should include a better line in your review. My guess is that most critics will be just that, critics but can offer so viable alternative as to what would be better. This section seems to becoming like sports talk radio. Everyone is a critic but few are players or actors.