Films like this are more useful than gung-ho capers like "Behind Enemy Lines." They help audiences understand and sympathize with the actual experiences of combat troops, instead of trivializing them into entertainments.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
His is a triumph of pure filmmaking, a pitiless, unrelenting, no-excuses war movie so thoroughly convincing it's frequently difficult to believe it is a staged re-creation.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
A personal best for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, a triumph for Scott and a war film of prodigious power. You will be shaken.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
The next worst thing to being there. That's how real it feels.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
One hell of a ride. For better or for worse, it will leave you stunned and reeling.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
As brilliantly shot as it is brutally single-minded, this is a war movie shorn of all its usual accouterments: the battle is the plot.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
You're drawn in, like it or not. You can't get away from the immediacy. Or the feeling that you're getting sucked in, too.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Throw in the music -- a wall-to-wall whorl of Eastern modal dirges, thumping rock and Celtic-y skirl -- and you've got a veritable cinematic rhapsody of war.Read Full Review »
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