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I've been compelled to write this review after reading the former ones. As this film is quite remarkable in many things I can only understand the very bad reviews as spurious stuff. Why I say that comes below: Very good performances. Matthew Fox, Jeffrey Donovan and the girl Quinn McColgan are perfect in their work. You really get into the movie with them. There's always a narrative nerve that never decays. The photography is usually evocative. The characters are elaborated and likely. They evolve as the screenplay unfolds. The movie is, in general, entertaining and the action scenes are well filmed. Maybe is not the most original sci-fi movie but no doubt it's a more than decent one.

I have read in other comments that this TV show was full of clichés. And yes, it is. But I guess any army is full of clichés. I don't like movies like "the red thin line", because the characters look more philosophers rather than soldiers. What I liked more from this show is that it is constantly pointed out the question ¿who are the civilized people? Summarazing, there are lots of reasons to watch this show. The other thing it is pointed out is the lack of concerns about the iraqi people. The command seems to be "In case of doubt, just blow up everything". It is not true this work don't care about the Iraq people, but they are showing the point of view of a US marine platoon, and they have to show them as they are. Sorry for my English.