chaos-rampant The Yom Kippur war almost caught Israel unawares. Twenty days later they were across the Suez 100km from Cairo and near as many from Damascus, another disaster for the Arabs. In a strange turn of events however, the surprise attack and doom-laden buildup to it, with thousands of graves dug in anticipation, had a devastating effect on the country, in effect signaling a perpetual state of fear and alert.I am in the middle of exploring through films these bumps in the national mind, which brought me here. For what it's worth, the filmmaker has decided to capture an experience of war as purely about what it means to be there as he can. He knows, he was there.Sadly, it's flat beyond belief. For better or worse I found it to be nothing like Thin Red Line, as others have mentioned in their comments. Whereas Malick spins war to be one of conflicting urges in the soul, this is what we see, two hours of med- evacs carrying the wounded.There's one contemplative image in the film, a helo shot of a muddy battlefield with maneuvering tanks drawing meaningless patterns on the mud, contrasted with the early shot of the lush mingling of painted sex evocative of life, color, imagination, spontaneity. It's a great shot, and perfectly describes both what the film wants to portray, a sort of aimless cosmos, and what it ends up with—aimless doodling on the ground.So the filmmaker reminisces in film about a time and place that allowed no skyward gaze. The important message is that war is as wasteful and pointless to happen in real life as it is to watch in this film.

frindegill That's all I have to say, finally an Israeli film with some noticable budget and they blew it. Having been from Israel and a filmmaker as well all I can say is that I was extremely disappointed with the film. First of all- the story takes place in a war, yet it is never felt by the audience that the characters are in any kind of danger. The camera work is so lame that I was ashamed. The beginning of the film tried to show the shock and lack of readyness by the Israelis to the surprise attack on Yom Kippur, yet the scene was made so bad that we could not know and get the feeling of what really happened mainly because tight shots were used and there was no way of establishing what happened. Towards the end there is a scene that they are struggling in the mud to take out an injured soldier, the scene is shot in one long (ver long) take it is unrealistic, I served in the Israeli military it takes about 30 seconds to evacuate an injured soldier, that scene took ten minutes and did not show the training of the Israeli military which is the best in the world.And now for the story- I understand that the story is based on a real one but everyone has a story (a war story in Israel) and most of them are not interesting, there was NO character development, very boring dialogues and no real relations established between the characters To sum up if you got 2 hours to spend go see other films you will be disappointed Waste of time

stevefuzzy The movie is deeply flawed. The opening and ending love scenes are irrelevant, pretentious, yet totally boring.The middle section, dealing with the breakout of the war hold more promise. I believe they truly reflect the level of disorganization and panic the Israeli military was going thru in the early hours of the war.The depiction of rescuing wounded from muddy battleground was on the money; my father, who did exactly that in that war, vouches for this. It certainly brought back memories of the national psyche at the time.If you can forgive the student-project production quality of the movie, and are curious about what it was like for the common Israeli soldier, then watch this. However, if you like your movies to be professionally produced, this ain't it.

featurefilm When I screened Kippur, I was very enthusiastic. I had waited a long time to finally be able to see it.Huge disappointment.There is no story line. No acting. No directing. No Camera work. Nothing with the exception of a constant annoying helicopter hummer and the never-ending noise of a diesel engine.Save time. Avoid the movie.