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Year
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17 Points |
2014 |
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Amazon - Instant Video
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire
iTunes
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire
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BrianSez
– with 17 Trust Points – rated it
OK
Standard war movie fare: Â A small group of jarheads against all odds, survive against the Taliban while carrying out an unlikely mission of having to rescue a local female political hero. Decent (albeit mindless) shoot-em-up entertainment is sometimes just what the Dr. ordered for war movie buffs.
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OK |
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17 Points |
2017 |
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Amazon - Instant Video
Sand Castle
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BrianSez
– with 17 Trust Points – rated it
OK
Decent, albeit run-of-the-mill war movie set in Iraq. You’ll get the requisite hard fighting action and the tough staff sergeant, and the film does a good job highlighting the turnaround and eventual wisdom from a reluctant soldier. If you are a war movie lover, it won’t be a waste of time. If no…
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BrianSez
– with 17 Trust Points – rated it
OK
Bicycle troops against invading Germans? The equipment, including the machine guns mounted to motorcycle side cars seemed comically inadequate. It’s easy to make fun of the circumstances, but apparently this is a serious tale of bravery and heroism to the Danes.
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BrianSez
– with 17 Trust Points – rated it
OK
Marine behind enemy lines can’t step off of a mine. The drama meanders through a series of delusions about his life and fears. Not horrible, but I couldn’t get over the unlikelihood of the situation
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OK |
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17 Points |
2014 |
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Amazon - Instant Video
Field of Lost Shoes
iTunes
Field of Lost Shoes
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BrianSez
– with 17 Trust Points – rated it
OK
The Field of Lost Shoes is a story about the 1864 corps of cadets (257 of them) at the Viginia Military Institute who were conscripted by Maj Gen John Breckinridge; They were supposed to be backups, but ended up being very necessary to turn back the Union armies. In the end, 10 were killed and …
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OK |
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17 Points |
1969 |
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Amazon - Instant Video
Battle of Britain
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BrianSez
– with 17 Trust Points – rated it
OK
They don’t make war movies like this any more: primadonna stars rendering glamorous portrayals of gentlemanly air-boys, and acting that would be considered as being over the top. Battle of Britain is all of that, and I loved it. Marvelous old planes, awesome old aerial shots of the English co…
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OK |
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17 Points |
1976 |
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Amazon - Instant Video
Aces High
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BrianSez
– with 17 Trust Points – rated it
OK
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines – as the phrase went back in the day. Magnificent indeed, but also jaded, troubled, and struggling with the fact that so little of them ever make it through WWI sotries alive. Aces High takes a soft-pedal (well, soft for a 70’s movie anyway) look a…
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BrianSez
– with 17 Trust Points – rated it
OK
I’m on a roll with watching ‘B War Movies’ recently, so in that spirit I took a gander at Fortress. Fortress is a bit of a stretch. It seems to me that B17s were largely sitting ducks between the flack from below and the fly-by strafing from above. Numbers was the key to success, the more B17s …
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Good |
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7 Points |
1977 |
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Amazon - Instant Video
A Bridge Too Far
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Fire at Will!
– with 7 Trust Points – rated it
Good
A fact-based retelling of Operation Market Garden, Richard Attenborough’s star-studded film suffers from its multiplicity of famous actors, and reminded this reviewer a little too much of Malick’s “Thin Red Line” (except Attenborough’s view of war does not match dead soldiers with injured birds)….
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Good |
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83 Points |
2002 |
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Amazon - Instant Video
Hart's War
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Wick
– with 66 Trust Points – rated it
Very Good
POW movies – especially WWII POW movies – are an esteemed genus of the War movie family, and Hart’s War adds proudly to the trove. Upstanding story, well and directly told, complete with workmanlike movie star performance by Old Block Head himself, Bruce Willis.
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