Universal Studios Entertainment:

After wanting to see this movie with Matt Damon the second it was released, it’s ironic I would see this grand movie involving the military while stuck on an USAF base, seeing uniforms everyday, and even talking to soldiers and airmen who have recently returned, or going to that forsaken area.
Using the invasion and following real-​world events of Iraq as a basis, this movie easily recreates the excitement, the sadness, and the real pain and everyday sorrow that american soldiers and iraqi citizens experience everyday in the bloodbath of their country and their lives. There are some very profound statements made in this movie… excellently captured using natural lighting and even during some night scenes, hand-​held filming, and lots of real-​world hands-​on action though to many, the action will seem low-​key as compared to most movies americans like and expect.
Blood and Gore should not be the major attraction, but real-​world messages that make you think on how things might have been, and what could be.
Matt Damon is excellent as US Army CWO Miller leading a squad of soldiers in a quest to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in post-​invasion Iraq. The chaos, confusion and misery our soldiers (any soldier) go through in a mess of war is so excellently visually protrayed, I felt like crying. One scene shows them driving to a site for inspection and as they get tangled up and eventually stopped in a mess of citizen cars and people hoping to buy gas, the situation brings to light for our innocent eyes the fear, the hatred, the hopelessness, and the frustration felt by everyone in that region in any «typical» day.
If this storyline were true (if only it were), it would explain many of the mass confusion, civil war and other details that happened after the invasion of real-​world Iraq.
Lots of language.
God bless our troops!!! A must-​see movie of this generation.
NOTE: I must add that the character of Freddy, who as an iraqi citizen, reports to the CWO Miller an event that is happening, and later is hired by Miller as his translator, that the americans are NOT the ones to decide what happens to that country, but that the iraqi people should be given the opportunity to decide… and there are some heart-​wrenching words uttered by this character that slaps you hard to make you realize that his words are being said everyday by a nation, and not just one movie character. Well done…