barnco21

I really enjoyed this film. A lot of the other reviewers have said it all better than I can, but there's a surprising intelligence in the story telling. Not everything that's important to the story is made explicit in the film; you really have to understand the man to understand the story. The land is as important a player as any of the characters. The silence itself is a character in the story, in a way. After a while you can almost begin to feel what that kind of isolation might have been like, and the kinds of things that would become a lot more (or a lot less) important to a person out there.

I knew better; "Amazon Original", "Netflix Original", and the like have become the mcdonalds and burger king of the film world. Still, I was tempted by the prospect of a good story about some people in the military. Instead it's a reheated leftover about how nancy pelosi and barbara walters are going to save us from the evil corporations, all while an unhinged vet fumbles around like an idiot, torturing people in the background. L cannot imagine that people actually serving in the armed forces appreciate that kind of portrayal. The best I can say is that the lead actors did a fine job, and probably didn't really understand what they were being suckered into at the time of filming.

Rewatched this recently, and I liked more than I expected. It's a good war movie, with nothing subtle about it, based on a fictional scenario that the writer/director lays out up front. I think some of the other reviewers go a bit far in trying to make something else out of the film. I enjoyed the good story about average people thrown into extreme circumstances.