Starts out strong, following Private Andrew Bregmann just before he deploys to Afghanistan. He's a kid dreaming of glory and wartime adventures. There are few surprises once in country, shock explosions as Brigmann becomes second in command to Sergeant Deeks. The movie then gets a bit dry and meandering as the young soldier becomes suspicious of his relentless leaders decisions, he debates following his moral compass. Alex Skarsgård does a great job with his role and is probably why I stuck with this. Nat Wolff was decent too.
The ending is one of those, what that's it? With a few blurbs to tell you what happened in a third person way. As a whole this didn't leave much of an impression. Maybe including parts of the trial would have made more of an impact as I came to learn this is based on a true story.
There's a documentary of the same name which is meant to be good.
The ending is one of those, what that's it? With a few blurbs to tell you what happened in a third person way. As a whole this didn't leave much of an impression. Maybe including parts of the trial would have made more of an impact as I came to learn this is based on a true story.
There's a documentary of the same name which is meant to be good.