Laughable.

I'm not denying or questioning the credibility of the poltical content of the film or the message it was trying to get across, but the film itself is crap. The dialogue in places is very poor, the delivery of said dialogue is even poorer, and alot of the "hard hitting" scenes are so ham fisted that they miss the mark (no pun intended) and don't register at all. I didn't relate to ANY character, although argubly this is perhaps the point. I could draw paralells to Platoon, but that would be unfair because Platoon is acctually good.

Did this all really happen? Is this an accurate representation of attitudes in Iraq? Maybe. I'm not questioning that. I'm questioning the film itself because it's just genuinley "bad".

Again, to draw paralells, Platoon was critical of the war in Vietnam and the ideas of troops without being too ham fisted or being chock full of unlikeable wankers, like in the Mark of Cain.

Not sure if anyone agree's because i've seen mostly positive reviews for this film on IMDB so far (bar a few silly american patriot types) but this is pretty much what I took away from this film which is unfortunate because it really had some potential.