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Centurion
OK 83 Points 2010

Slasher movies have nothing on this swordplay spectacular. Heads and arms are so much meat for the blade, lopped off right and left, as a group of Roman soldiers battles back from behind enemy lines.

So what’s to recommend it? A visually rich portrayal of the Roman army in early Britannia, t…

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The Monuments Men
OK 17 Points 2014

Instead of a serious “Saving Private Ryan” we get a semi-humorous “Saving Claude Monet”. The story is decent, send in a platoon of art experts to save the world’s gems from Nazi tyranny. However the execution is “meh.” With a cast like the one presented, I expected more in the com…

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Jarhead 2: Fiel...
OK 17 Points 2014
Field of Lost S...
OK 17 Points 2014
Fortress
OK 17 Points 2012
Sand Castle
OK 17 Points 2017
April 9th
OK 17 Points 2015
Mine
OK 17 Points 2016
Tears Of The Sun
Barely OK 5 Points 2003

Bruce Willis leads his Navy Seal team through a dense jungle, and a murky script, in this war/action/thriller film. Willis plays Lt. A.K. Waters, who is forced to choose between obeying his mission orders to rescue a group of American citizens from civil war in the jungles of Nigeria, or lead a g…

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The Messenger
Pretty Bad 66 Points 2009

Anger and pity suffuse this superficially sympathetic portrait of the US Army’s casualty notification service. GIs are uniformly depicted as damaged, deluded or destructive: those uninjured as much as the wounded. Families of the fallen are depicted as unsupportive of their loved one’s enlistment…

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