Repetitive and chock full of hackneyed scenes. But mostly just
repetitive without changing and shedding much new light. Yes, it was the
commodification of heros and warfare, and yes it slighted the
individuals and their anguish and belittled the meaning of their
brotherhood. You get that in the first 5 minutes, and then it just
keeps hammering. Some good filmmaking, but lacking a sense of scene
and the all important sense of geography for something like this. See
Full Metal Jacket or Thin Red Line for studies in how to really
involve a spectator in the precise geography of what's at stake
happening in real time. This was mostly flashbacks looking for
effects to serve the above theme, so it lacked the immediacy it was
striving for. It was always looking backward. It didn't live in the
moment, as it must.
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