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A Balasaur Score of 46 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes 23%, Metacritic 42/100. Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do. Most of the 177 2000s war movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
The day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman.
Ratings
IMDb5.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes23%
Metacritic42/100
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
200 audience votes
Key crew
- Mark FriedmanScreenplay
- Irwin WinklerDirector
Cast
- Samuel L. JacksonWilliam Marsh
- Jessica BielVanessa Price
- Christina RicciSarah Schivino
- Victoria RowellPenelope Marsh
- 50 CentJamal Aiken
- Sam JonesBilly Marsh
- Chad Michael MurrayJordan Owens
- Jeffrey NordlingCary
- Brian PresleyTommy Yates
- Vyto RuginisHank Yates
- Sandra NelsonV.A. Hospital Doctor
- Jack SerinoPvt. Shar
Stills
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Themes
post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)iraq war veteranu.s. soldier