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	jackovipe@ wrote:
	This movie is a disservice to movie making. It also damages the potential understanding of a very important topic. Equipped with a significant budget the producers and director have managed to trivialize this topic using every commercial trick currently available. First we have extensive 'war' footage - tanks, guns, infantry buddies, death, blood, gore etc. - long and gratuitous. No original thought here. We've seen this sort of thing in every war/propaganda movie since movies began. There was even a picture of John Wayne pretending to be a soldier. Pretenders worshiping another pretender. Why not feature a real warrior if there has to be a 'hero' in the frame. After the explosions and the necessary tragic carnage we have the ticker tape welcome home and then the PTSD analysis. Next, small town family destruction resulting from the experiences. Then, almost hidden, the STOP LOSS theme. The entire point about the stop loss policy is lost in the gratuitous gloss of a wanna be war movie. Stop Loss policy is yet another nasty tactic used by the US in its prosecution of political invasions of sovereign countries. These invasions lead us to terrible destruction of all civilized societies. This trivial trash teaches nothing about the stop loss tactic used by the US military. It teaches us nothing about the trickery used to prosecute US invasions and it teaches us nothing about recruitment propaganda. I suggest a reading of Henry IV part 1 and beyond. Hotspur is more credible and articulate than this director will ever be. (3/10)
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