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Created Sep 20, 2008 12:31AM PST • Edited Sep 20, 2008 12:31AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Good 3.0

   Another war movie that tries to impart the senselessness of it all. Similar to some other war movies, this film focuses on the difficult adjustment that soldiers have to make when back from the battlefield. Tortured minds haunted and all that. This time, a band of friends all from the same home-town in Texas. However, its twist is the military’s ‘stop loss’ programs that try to prevent the discharge from one of the gang and the story that ensues…. The actors, upon first sight, all looked too good-looking and ‘perfect’ to play the part of real soldiers, but I was proven wrong. Instead, they came across as genuine – both in the war setting, and back at home as the ‘good-’ol boys’. The biggest negative for me was the meandering through the story near the end, and an ending that I thought was too weak of a finish for the strong story that I thought it was telling.

4. Acting

   Very Good 3.5

5. Male Stars Very Good 3.5

6. Female Stars Very Good 3.5

7. Female Costars Very Good 3.5

8. Male Costars Very Good 3.5

10. Film

    Very Good 3.5

11. Direction Very Good 3.5

12. Play Very Good 3.5

13. Music Very Good 3.5

14. Visuals Very Good 3.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Sordid 3.1

17. Sex Erotic 3.1

18. Violence Brutal 3.1

19. Rudeness Profane 3.1

21. Reality

    Glib 1.3

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.3

23. Biological Glib 1.3

24. Physical Glib 1.3