Numerous soldiers are killed or seriously injured. From the encounter with innocent local children to the mounting sense of entrapment in the narrow streets of the town of Al Hayy, the battle scene is gripping, even if it calls to mind, and pales by comparison to, scenes in Black Hawk Down. soldiers, awaiting the trip home, is sent on a final humanitarian mission, during which they are ambushed. Perhaps the best-filmed scene is the opening in Iraq, where a group of U.S. (It was not a good sign that the film was previewed for critics months ago but is only being released now.)
Aiming for nuance and depth of human feeling, Home of the Brave, directed by Irwin Winkler, delivers nothing more than one-dimensional characters and endlessly dreary plots. Alternately politically incoherent and insouciantly apolitical, the film follows the lives of four soldiers as they return to civilian life in Spokane, Washington. Whatever light that and other Machiavellian aphorisms might shed on our conduct of the Iraq war, the film illumines very little. "Wars begin where you will but they do not end where you please" - that piece of political wisdom from Machiavelli serves as the motto for the newly released film Home of the Brave, the first film about soldiers returning from the Iraq war.
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