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Mary S The epilogue lacks details of how the authorities caught Sokal. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/09/24 Full Review Liane C Excellent movie and cast.Very intense.Samuel L Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones were a great team in this movie.So tragic to see what its like to have ones own country and military that they honorably serve and protect, turn on them in the face of corrupt politics and leave their fellow marine "out to dry". Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/28/23 Full Review Steve D Aggressively average. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review eric y An underappreciated war/law movie. Great acting, good script and well directed. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review red t It was disappointingly average. The acting is the best part of this. It's solid overall. Jackson & Jones have solid chemistry and are likeable. Guy Pearce is the standout though giving a very good performance. The Supporting Cast is decent but generic. The cinematography has its moments (The exchange between Jackson/Pearce on the stand was really well done) but is for the most part very basic and uninspired at times overall being ok. The music in this overall is bad not because the music itself is (really its generic and forgettable) but because its so weird how little its used in this besides the opening and closing scene. It makes things feel very dry and really was confusing to me why more wasn't use to give scenes more feeling. The Editing in this is not good. There are scenes in the first half that should've been cut, some flashback scenes that are out of place. Everything is else is just ok. And this makes the pacing never develop tension or investment to see what happens because of the poor execution in music, editing, uninspired camerawork and mediocre pacing. This should have been made as a Courtroom thriller rather than show what happened they should have cut the Vietnam scenes and the fight at the embassy. Instead we should let our imaginations piece together the crime as we slowly figure out what happens. this would've worked much better instead though we have a generic war/courtroom drama that is forgettable. This honestly should be remade with the changes listed above. If your not a fan of Jackson, Jones or Pearce than skip this. It's ok but there isn't enough war or compelling court drama for fans of either genre to appreciate. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Nawt W These Yemeni children have been vicious terrorists for quite a long time, huh? But the mighty United States has kept them in check for decades by droning the hell out of them. Keeping Yemen safe and not a failed Middle Eastern state on a pile of other failed states where the Americans bravely intervened. Let's get down to brass tacks. I loathe all the assessments and the plot of this film. Yet as a courtroom drama with great actors and direction, it sure succeeds.  First of all, any notion that this is some moral debate goes right out the window. Childers is completely justified in his actions. Period. The drama is that Washington wigs don't want Childers to gun down the children because politicians are evil, they hide the truth, and they have never been in the field, so they know nothing about how you should kill terrorists. Are you anti-American, Department of State?  It's a farce. Why did weapons completely disappear the moment shooting stopped? Why could no other marines even see the supposed dozen upon dozen of guns among the dead? Don't think about it. You just haven't tasted the gunpowder, like Childers, boy. He is protecting the American flag. Who are you to judge the great peacekeepers? Let's all collectively pretend that nothing like that ever happened in reality ever since. Okay? Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/10/22 Full Review Read all reviews

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