I would first of all give Kevin Bacon a medal for great acting.
An overall watchable movie, but I could not help to think how offending it may seem to those on the other side. I can imagine this movie could come across as deeply insulting to those who lost their own, in their own country.
I think I understand how this movie could reach and touch Americans, and show respect to the families of the fallen warriors. If that was all it wanted to do, it did well. And I should add, before I go about to give this movie thumbs down, that I do not intend to disrespect the people that this movie were about, and those who were moved.
Nevertheless, I was more swept away by the definitions of "loyalty", "pride", "respect" and "honor" in this film, than the actual feelings it wanted to evoke. It was impossible to resist a sense of unjust towards the many more civilians and foreign troops, and their families. What made this man a hero, and the men he may have killed not? Why is this tragedy more worthy of sharing than the hundred of lives that were lost in the very same war, but under a different flag and of a different belief? This movie is as close to US Army/Marine propaganda as can be. A tearful story of a man in uniform, so full of loyalty and patriotism towards his "own". "Yes, fellow Americans, we shall honor our people and our flag and the cross of Jesus Christ to the extent it all deserves -no limit." A movie for patriotic Americans, that's it. It lacks critical thinking, socio-political awareness, fairness to those who lost loved ones on the other side(s) and to those countless innocent people involved and which are not even mentioned. (oh, that's right -they threw in a sentence before the credits) For those out there who put American soldiers higher than all others, who have faith in God, and respect the U.S. Army - a must see.
Anyone else - I would not recommend it. Not even close. There's nothing "not Hollywood" about it.
An overall watchable movie, but I could not help to think how offending it may seem to those on the other side. I can imagine this movie could come across as deeply insulting to those who lost their own, in their own country.
I think I understand how this movie could reach and touch Americans, and show respect to the families of the fallen warriors. If that was all it wanted to do, it did well. And I should add, before I go about to give this movie thumbs down, that I do not intend to disrespect the people that this movie were about, and those who were moved.
Nevertheless, I was more swept away by the definitions of "loyalty", "pride", "respect" and "honor" in this film, than the actual feelings it wanted to evoke. It was impossible to resist a sense of unjust towards the many more civilians and foreign troops, and their families. What made this man a hero, and the men he may have killed not? Why is this tragedy more worthy of sharing than the hundred of lives that were lost in the very same war, but under a different flag and of a different belief? This movie is as close to US Army/Marine propaganda as can be. A tearful story of a man in uniform, so full of loyalty and patriotism towards his "own". "Yes, fellow Americans, we shall honor our people and our flag and the cross of Jesus Christ to the extent it all deserves -no limit." A movie for patriotic Americans, that's it. It lacks critical thinking, socio-political awareness, fairness to those who lost loved ones on the other side(s) and to those countless innocent people involved and which are not even mentioned. (oh, that's right -they threw in a sentence before the credits) For those out there who put American soldiers higher than all others, who have faith in God, and respect the U.S. Army - a must see.
Anyone else - I would not recommend it. Not even close. There's nothing "not Hollywood" about it.