Review of Kippur

As others have written, "Kippur" is about two IDF soldiers of the 1973 Yom Kippur war who can't find their unit and join up with helicopter medevac group. Thus we do not see the war, but what happens minutes or hours after the lead stops flying. I think "Kippur" is closer to reality than most war pictures because the men say little, we don't know much about them (except for the doctor), and boredom is rule. The director spends five excruciating minutes showing us how the men extricate a wounded and unconscious soldier from a huge mudhole; they keep dropping him, and have to pick him up without a stretcher and drag him to a dry spot. We never see the enemy, and there is but one scene of action in the entire film (and I can't give it away.) "Kippur" is definitly for the war film afficionado who wishes to see the aftermath or the peacenik who knows the futility of armed conflict, and wants to see two hours of it.