A typically American film.
It's thoroughly shameful how every single Iraqi civilian in this film is treated as suspicious. In fact, all Iraqi characters are in some way the 'enemy' and 'guilty' of some crime, plot or other dubious activity.
All but the exception of one little Iraqi boy who is obviously 'an innocent' - uncorrupted and harmless.
Just like the person who made this film.
Not.
In any case, I would like to end this review here. But IMDb will not permit a review below 10 lines of text, and although there's plenty more to say about the portrayal of characters here - the 'macho'-ness of the US troops for starters, as well as the fact I would like to reference other reviews and how I cannot understand how so many people 'jumped onto the bandwagon' with this one, much of what surrounds this film is beyond me.
Not to my taste at all.
It's thoroughly shameful how every single Iraqi civilian in this film is treated as suspicious. In fact, all Iraqi characters are in some way the 'enemy' and 'guilty' of some crime, plot or other dubious activity.
All but the exception of one little Iraqi boy who is obviously 'an innocent' - uncorrupted and harmless.
Just like the person who made this film.
Not.
In any case, I would like to end this review here. But IMDb will not permit a review below 10 lines of text, and although there's plenty more to say about the portrayal of characters here - the 'macho'-ness of the US troops for starters, as well as the fact I would like to reference other reviews and how I cannot understand how so many people 'jumped onto the bandwagon' with this one, much of what surrounds this film is beyond me.
Not to my taste at all.