Title pretty much sez all.
It's an amazing piece of work, and the writing and scenario work is astonishing; you can be quite taken up by the story and borne along to the end.
But the ending leaves a bad taste, in that it tries to cop something dignified back from the legacy of the U. S. Marine Corps by creating a mythos of a renegade jarhead who winds up serving the invaded people.
On one hand, it's a clever enough idea; why not tell such a story?
But there's just way, way too much bad karma on the Marines to just sort of blithely let them have this kind of mythic mulligan. It bugs me.
In light of that, that it gets as many stars as I give it tells you something.
It's an amazing piece of work, and the writing and scenario work is astonishing; you can be quite taken up by the story and borne along to the end.
But the ending leaves a bad taste, in that it tries to cop something dignified back from the legacy of the U. S. Marine Corps by creating a mythos of a renegade jarhead who winds up serving the invaded people.
On one hand, it's a clever enough idea; why not tell such a story?
But there's just way, way too much bad karma on the Marines to just sort of blithely let them have this kind of mythic mulligan. It bugs me.
In light of that, that it gets as many stars as I give it tells you something.