Destroyer Wod There is 2 reasons why i got this movie, no actually there is 3... The first one was it had Jessica Biel, which i find gorgeous and likable in much the stuff she is in. Second was it was very cheap, only 3$ at the video store for a buy. Third one is the most important, i was really expecting a war theme movie about a group of soldier being ambushed in Irak and having to survive... Thats actually the premise of the movie if you read the back of the box art....??? But the movie is something completely different. There is an ambush yeah, and they do have to survive, but for 5-10 minutes at best... Thats one of the rare action sequence of the movie and all the rest is a drama about how they have to readjust to there previous lives...Now i will give that to the writers and people involved, the story is not bad, and for the kind of person that do enjoy these types of movies, I'm sure this one is a good one. Thats why I'm giving it a 6, being honest. But me... i was expecting an action movie, by everything the movie had to offer from cover art, to the synopsis, and the actor playing in it. Yeah the fact of having 50 cent in a drama is very strange for me. Samuel L and Jessica Biel also have there share of action movies...In any case, i was PERSONALLY bored for the best part of the movie, despite a good try by the actors and a script that i mentioned, is pretty good for its category. Thanksfully the movie was not too long, unlike The Hurt Locker where i checked like 5 times when it was gonna end... so well. But nop, these are not my type of movies...

JoeytheBrit Sincerity oozes from every scene of The Home of the Brave, but it can't disguise a rather routine story that has been told many times before. Essentially an updating of The Best Years of Our Lives, the film follows the trials of three veterans of the Iraqi occupation as they struggle to adjust to life back in civvy street. Jennifer Beils returns home minus her hand, Brian Presley is haunted by witnessing the death of his childhood friend while on duty, and surgeon Samuel L. Jackson is guilt-stricken by the lack of emotion he felt when he failed to save the wounded soldiers on his operating table. Like Harold Russell, Biels struggles to come to terms with the loss of her hand (although the hook has been replaced by a chunky looking prosthetic), which costs her a relationship, and like Dana Andrews, Brian Presley returns home to find his job has been given to someone else and finds employment in a low-paid job (ticket clerk at a multiplex instead of Andrews' soda jerk). In easily the least convincing storyline, Jackson seeks refuge from his feelings in alcohol.The film's script can best be described as prosaic, with a couple of high-points standing out from the alarming reliance on familiar phrases and sentiments. The scene in the vice-principal's office is well played, and there are a couple of insightful moments, but everything looks too familiar, as if the film has been cobbled together as a kind of homage to the best of previous 'coming home' movies.While no one questions the bravery and dedication of the troops from all countries in places like Afghanistan and Iraq – and there is no suggestion that this film is anything other than a genuine attempt by the makers to depict how it feels to find yourself a stranger in your own land with emotions you can't control or understand – you can't really hope to create a successful film if you're not prepared to allow it to embrace the bigger picture. I wonder how many people return from these places feeling betrayed by their leaders, and that they've been used by their country for reasons other than altruistic. The idea that the war in Iraq is about America's need for oil, and the questions arising from the States' heavy involvement on the world stage and the perception such an involvement gives rise to amongst its own population and people around the world, is only briefly alluded to – and even then by a troubled juvenile who is ostensibly rebelling against his parents.

lastliberal The key to this film is the scene where Vanessa (Jessica Biel) and Tommy (Brian Presley) meet in the theater. They exchange psychotropic information and sit down and talk like they have know each other their entire lives. The fact that they are strangers is irrelevant because they have more in common now that with those they have really known.If you haven't been there, you can't possible understand. It doesn't matter whether you are Will's (Samuel L. Jackson) wife or Tommy's father. You just can't know.So, you work through the pain yourself while causing damage to your family, or sometimes you can't get through it, like Jamal (50 Cent), before some trigger-happy cop does what the Iraqia couldn't.This was a subtitle film with a beautiful soundtrack that really set the mood. It wasn't cartoonish like some of the post-Vietnam pictures. It showed the pain of return. Some win, some lose, some run away.Highly recommended.

jmstaton The movie is great, I know the acting is a matter of opinion, but we are all entitled to our own OPINIONS.I was a medic there, from 2004-2005, Was assigned to an infantry unit.People here in the states will never know what it was like there. WWII, Vietnam, Korean Conflict and other engagements. These soldiers know what it's like to have been there and lost someone whom you have only know for a short time. I can actually know what these characters are going through, It's been 3 years, but certain things trigger memories, thoughts, and reactions. But you have to live on, and try not to think about these. it's not easy, but I have to live with it, like many other soldiers.Life is not fair, but you live with what your dealt.