BrianSez's Review

Summary - Good 3.0

Another war movie that tries to impart the senselessness of it all. Similar to some other war movies, this film focuses on the difficult adjustment that soldiers have to make when back from the battlefield. Tortured minds haunted and all that. This time, a band of friends all from the same home-town in Texas. However, its twist is the military’s ‘stop loss’ programs that try to prevent the discharge from one of the gang and the story that ensues…. The actors, upon first sight, all looked too good-looking and ‘perfect’ to play the part of real soldiers, but I was proven wrong. Instead, they came across as genuine – both in the war setting, and back at home as the ‘good-’ol boys’. The biggest negative for me was the meandering through the story near the end, and an ending that I thought was too weak of a finish for the strong story that I thought it was telling.

Acting - Very Good 3.5

Film - Very Good 3.5

Edge - Sordid 3.1

Reality - Glib 1.3

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