P.S. Alexander Marlow is a Left wing hippy if he really believes what he wrote. His agenda was so slanted he missed the heart of the movie and really highlighted the few subpar plotlines. This is not an accurate review of this movie.

In Conclusion, this still a must see movie. Love it or hate it, it will raise questions and show a new perspective on modern warfare and the modern soldier. It brings to light a view to war that has never been shown before with bomb defusal in the EOD. (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) Some new horrifying techniques of war like body bombs, which was new to me, and the mechanical robots used for defusal was new and interesting. All the scenes make sense if you view the movie from the perspective of "you are the soldier and this is what happens when you are at war". This is the reason there is no viewpoint from the Iraqi perspective. It is a soldier’s movie, not an Iraqi sympathizer movie. The change of pace during the movie was great. It wasn't formulaic, where every bomb defusing situation starts and ends the same way. What our soldiers do and what they experience is shown here powerfully. This is a must see for anyone who is old enough to handle the subject content.

There are some negatives though, including The lead character leaving the base for a suicide mission to confirm a boy’s death or A Commanding officer encouraging crazed behavior on the battlefield. The last 10 minutes of in country film were sketchy at best. The positives outweigh the negatives though. The soldiers get caught in places they would never be, as far as I (a Civilian without a clue) would know, patrolling a street with three men and then splitting up again! Inaccuracies probably riddle this film, but it illustrates the awful hell that is out there that someone else is facing to protect me. I respect that more than they will ever know.

Third, the soldiers interaction with each other and the Iraqi populace was accurate and right on. The Report above said the soldiers were cold to the thought of seeing a boy dead and discarding him instantly, calling him a "base rat". These men have to live like that to a certain extent to keep mentally stable. They can't cry over every upsetting event that happens there, like the sheltered viewer probably wants to see, or he'd go crazy. The Colonel letting an insurgent soldier bleed might not be as far in left field as Marlow, the above writer, says.