One has lost his best friend, one (a doctor) had to amputate many limbs, one had her hand amputated and now they start to struggle and stumble and fail like the movie. This is repeated so many times that the thickest moviegoer starts to scratch his head thinking: Are they telling me something here? Fate playing tricks is an old theme in war movies, after all it´s one of life´s themes, but usually it is handled with more subtlety. And all this happens after we have been told that exactly these people are about to go back home. The convoy gets ambushed, people die and get mutilated. The acting is too bad to actually induce feeling. But the similarity is a purely exterior one. The opening is quite similar to many other opening scenes of movies located in Iraq, be it Battle for Haditha, Stop-Loss or any other. It´s like someone telling you a joke and immediately explaining you afterwards why it was funny. After a while you start to wonder, why there is not a constant voice in the off telling you: ha…that was impressive, ha…see how horrible, ha….start to blame the government and now ha…. But DO NOT show a message like this in such a way. I don´t doubt for one sec that the returning soldiers need medication, treatment, can´t make their relatives understand, despair, start to drink, get violent, blame everyone including themselves and the government.įine. I don´t doubt for one sec, that this is how it was. Ridiculous dialogue, dragging storyline, wrong cast, pathetic music…Īnd yet, there are a lot of people who like this movie and say: that´s exactly how it was. What a bad, bad, bad movie! I´m embarrassed I watched it.
They all fail to some extent before they realise they need psychological help. After their return they try to cope with what they have been through. Home of the Brave is about a group of soldiers who came under heavy attack shortly before being sent home.
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