I have now seen this movie, expecting it to be better than the washouts which preceded it in the bid to be the 'Apocalypse Now' of the Iraq War. Despite Katherine Bigelow's merits as a director, it is another flop. Iraqis and 'insurgents' are treated as a backdrop and no more to the struggle of the noble American soldiers, trying their best against the odds. The civilian population are given no dimensions at all as portrayed in the film. They scarcely have any human characteristics. A bit the same as how they have been treated by the US military. An obscene travesty to anyone who has been interested in the history rather than the fiction. Bigelow's lame acceptance speech at the BAFTA'S 'to honour the men and women in the field ... never abandoning the need to find a resolution for peace' was not only incoherent but also authentic Hollywood bullshit.
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