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Jarhead -- Made me proud to be a...

Posted by clarkjohnsen (R) on November 7, 2005 at 09:28:47

...part of the opening weekend gross.

Yeah I know, it got 2 1/2 stars on average, but it was a damn good film. The thing held my attention totally, a criterion that reviewers never seem to acknowledge. Sure there were some derivative and some self-referential elements. But while I am generally of the opinion that war movies are hell (three words: Saving Private Ryan), and while I agree that most "war movies" are anti-war movies, this more properly should be called a non-war war movie.

It ain't about war, rather about the guys who do the war.

All elements -- acting, writing, directing, cinematography and cutting are exceptional. Names: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black, Walter Munch, Sam Mendes. OK, so the book by Tony Swafford was probably better, so what?

Caveats: The language is most foul (although appropriate), leftwing sentiments are voiced and the final fifteen seconds fall flat.

On the other hand, there are SUCH MOMENTS. Always I enjoy it when a movie unexpectedly develops into a famous photograph, as Ride with the Devil (basically an intimate film) does with the bloody Battle of Lawrence, or Carandiru (similarly intimate) with the shot of thousands of guys in their shorts lying in the prison yard. In Jarhead, the scene is the burning oil wells of Kuwait.

Recommended? FUCK, YEAH!

clark

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