This film is supposed to be based on a documentary that is supposed to be based on reality, so here's the score:
The documentary itself is okay, it gives you the general events that took place, includes some very powerful interviews, and gives you one guy and his family's perspective on things. It is pretty much entirely one-sided, but it does that well enough. If you're too lazy to do your own research, watch the documentary.
That having been said, I'm not confident the people who made this film even watched the documentary, let alone actually researched the real events. If they did, they must have decided reality was too boring, because they changed pretty much everything.
I don't know if this is a good film as fiction, because watching it I was unable to divorce the farce from the real events it was supposed to be depicting.
I see a lot of the reviews on here arguing about politics and people's opinions about what the real soldiers did or were accused of doing (or making blanket declarations about America being evil or American being spotless and saintly), and I have no idea what any of that nonsense has to do with this film.
Real things happened. This film barely depicts them, and gets pretty much nothing right. For that it earns a lowly 1 Star.
The documentary itself is okay, it gives you the general events that took place, includes some very powerful interviews, and gives you one guy and his family's perspective on things. It is pretty much entirely one-sided, but it does that well enough. If you're too lazy to do your own research, watch the documentary.
That having been said, I'm not confident the people who made this film even watched the documentary, let alone actually researched the real events. If they did, they must have decided reality was too boring, because they changed pretty much everything.
I don't know if this is a good film as fiction, because watching it I was unable to divorce the farce from the real events it was supposed to be depicting.
I see a lot of the reviews on here arguing about politics and people's opinions about what the real soldiers did or were accused of doing (or making blanket declarations about America being evil or American being spotless and saintly), and I have no idea what any of that nonsense has to do with this film.
Real things happened. This film barely depicts them, and gets pretty much nothing right. For that it earns a lowly 1 Star.