The first problem I have with this movie is that it attempts to be Full Metal Jacket, which is the greatest movie ever made related to war. The somber narrarating and overall familiar events will make FMJ fans really annoyed.

The second problem I have is the tongue-in-cheek reference to the curreent war in Iraq, where someone says “we killed Saddam, we’re never coming back here.” That is plain and simply the lamest thing since Tim Robbins’ character in War of the Worlds said “occupational armies never win.” I knew at one point there would be a joke made, but the way that it was done was so unrealistically bad. If you’re going to do it then at least have someone say something they’d actually say in the real world. No one would say “we never have to come back here again!”

The only thing the movie does a good job of, and this is simply because it was adapted from a book, is capture a side of war we’ve never seen on film. It shows that war isn’t as exciting as you might think. We follow a couple of characters that are absolutely bored to death. Don’t get me wrong, Full Metal Jacket did the same thing, but there was eventually a good deal of action at the end. We can’t give credit to the filmmakers though, because this is what the book was about (by the way, what a boring book it must have been. I can’t believe anyone actually read it).

This is a movie you should avoid at all costs. It’s one of the worst war movies out there. No one involved with this movie had any idea what they were doing. They just tried to copy past performances and styles that were successful.