Excellent!

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2007)

Excellent, very powerful film, well written, directed and filmed. The special effects are great, especially because you never actually notice them as such. The resulting scenes are impressive, as realistic as can be short of going onto the battlefield yourself, and in many instances, this film makes you feel as if you were really there. It actually hurts to watch this movie in certain moments.
This movie is all the way up there with Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, The Deer Hunter and Platoon, with one big plus point: it is not politically motivated! It is shameful that the academy didn't find this film worthy of even one Oscar Nomination (I could think of at least 6 categories where it should have won an Oscar)... But then again, we all know you do have to be politically oriented (to the far left) in order to be accepted in Hollywood. What a shame!
Thumbs up! This is one great movie.