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Created Mar 19, 2011 08:25PM PST • Edited Mar 19, 2011 08:25PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Very Good 3.5

   Das Boot meets the Hurt Locker – that’s how I think of this very engrossing film Follow this Israeli tank crew as they get in too deep in Lebanon during the 1992 war. The film is shot from the inside of the Tank – engulfing you in the experience. And to see the outside? Well, you have to use a scope. Just like the commander. I was completely glued to the interactions and goings on between the crew members. Apparently with this crew – everything was an argument – or at least a discussion. And that myopic view of the commander? It added a surreal and distorted view of reality – a protection from what was really happening. Just like the Tank’s armor provided everyone. The crew was much very different than what the army placards wanted them to think, that “Man is steel. This tank is only iron.” Tremendous acting and spurts of intense drama – but not in the typical war movie fashion, this movie concentrates on “issues of the mind” – while reminding you that yes, there was war and brutality happening all around.

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

    Risqué 2.0

17. Sex Titillating 2.0

18. Violence Fierce 2.0

19. Rudeness Salty 2.0

21. Reality

    Glib 1.7

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.7

23. Biological Glib 1.7

24. Physical Glib 1.7