Title: Great ideas, poor execution
Product review: There is much that is both right and wrong with this film. It's extremely funny, well acted, and has some very intelligent things to say about war and its effects on people on both sides-- during the first half of the movie. But midway through it loses track of what it wanted to be, or maybe didn't ever know at all. What starts as a condemnation of gung-ho Rambo warhawk mentality then turns into exactly that: a gung-ho Rambo action movie with people outrunning bullets and explosions and knocking down choppers with explosive-laced footballs. But you're not supposed to notice this is happening because the characters are doing it for "good" reasons, and are supposed to laugh as the "bad guys" die by the dozens. The intelligence and wit and irony built up at the start all goes up in a big explosion, and then gets wrapped up in an all too convenient, simple conclusion-- a tragic waste of an inherently complex, interesting premise.
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