Jarhead reviews

Sam Mendes' Gulf War film based on the book by Anthony Swofford. This is a movie that sets out to be the Apocalypse Now of the Gulf War and to a degree succeeds, though its brutality and tedium does actually make uncomfortable viewing. Apparently this movie did not benefit from support from the US military and did not get the free hardware offered to such films as Black Hawk Down and therefore is a warts'n'all depiction of the inaction of the USMC in the desert. Worth a look if you like this sort of thing. IMDB facts here