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If you're starved for entertainment while snowed in during a blizzard as I was, ok, watch this film. Otherwise forget it! What's more boring than watching live arm wrestling? Watching a movie about it. Complete with slow motion shots! Slo-mo arm wrestling? Give me a break. Possibly the most boring film of all time. 1/2 star just because I feel generous.

This film plays out like a TV Columbo episode. First you see what happened, then you watch it all come together via the court room scenes. To those viewers who don't really believe a child could possibly be shooting at the Marines I say how quick you forget what happened in Viet Nam time and again. Put yourself in Samuel L. Jackson's character and ask yourself, "what would I have done"? If you didn't do the exact same thing chances are you never would have lived through the experience. Powerhouse performances by Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones. This film is raw and emotional. For those with a weak stomach, beware the graphic battle scenes. 5 of 5 stars!

The good casting and acting couldn't save this from being a tedious bore of a movie. The entire story could have been told in 5 minutes. Stretching it into a 2 hour movie made sitting through it worse than pulling teeth. A big fat zero on the * meter.