Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Destroyer Wod There is 2 reasons why i got this movie, no actually there is 3... The first one was it had Jessica Biel, which i find gorgeous and likable in much the stuff she is in. Second was it was very cheap, only 3$ at the video store for a buy. Third one is the most important, i was really expecting a war theme movie about a group of soldier being ambushed in Irak and having to survive... Thats actually the premise of the movie if you read the back of the box art....??? But the movie is something completely different. There is an ambush yeah, and they do have to survive, but for 5-10 minutes at best... Thats one of the rare action sequence of the movie and all the rest is a drama about how they have to readjust to there previous lives...Now i will give that to the writers and people involved, the story is not bad, and for the kind of person that do enjoy these types of movies, I'm sure this one is a good one. Thats why I'm giving it a 6, being honest. But me... i was expecting an action movie, by everything the movie had to offer from cover art, to the synopsis, and the actor playing in it. Yeah the fact of having 50 cent in a drama is very strange for me. Samuel L and Jessica Biel also have there share of action movies...In any case, i was PERSONALLY bored for the best part of the movie, despite a good try by the actors and a script that i mentioned, is pretty good for its category. Thanksfully the movie was not too long, unlike The Hurt Locker where i checked like 5 times when it was gonna end... so well. But nop, these are not my type of movies...

Siamois Direction, acting, production values... everything here is decent. Yet, this movie is as stale as can be. The primary fault lies on an unoriginal story that refrains from controversy. But there are so many clichés and following of conventions here, that it becomes extremely difficult to care or to enjoy plot developments that are heavy-handed and telegraphed to the audience.And as much as the dramatic scenes at home lack punch, I must say the scenes back on the battlefield felt totally uninspired. Like something you would tack on a b-movie.Some tremendous performances, or a last script brush might have saved the film from being a forgettable one but alas, everybody here seems content to go through the motions. In the end, the fault lies primarily on poor writing and unengaged direction.I applaud Irwin Winkler for attempting to tell a story without relying on Hollywood action and by concentrating on the drama surrounding the characters. Unfortunately, the drama here is not really good and even though movies like Stop-Loss and Lions for Lambs have more distracting plot treads, they nonetheless nail better dramatic moments and have us care about the characters a little more.

Cristi_Ciopron HOTB is a movie I will warmly recommend to my philistine friends—it is the simpletons' drama ,art for those unable to taste art. It is junk, war exploitation, an artificial, derivative, tricked product . Highly moralizing also, and unpleasantly patronizing. It is a whole of clichés stupidly assembled by a hack. Self—righteous drama, wholly tricked and phony. Everything is counterfeited. I liked the first scenes—those set in Irak. Those who delight in JAMES BOND and STAR WARS and STAR TREK and other such garbage will hail HOTB as a remarkable drama—remarkably psychological. On the other hand, I have seen far worse stuff—far more banal and boring. One thing is certain—for most of its time, HOME OF … is not boring. Jackson's performance is wrong; yet it is true the man was given crap to begin with. There are a few mildly atmospheric scenes—all involving Presley (I guess this might be the name, since it's the only one of the four leads that I had not previously heard about …). This are the two good things—the introductory war Irakian scenes; and some of Presley's scenes (Presley's role, quite ineptly played, was nonetheless written as a sort of updating of the Dean/Brando '50s parts –something certainly more appealing than the exhausted Vietnam syndrome …).The most embarrassing scenes are those of Jackson's initially ideal family ,that brusquely—or gradually, in the writer's intentions …--becomes gravely _disfunctional and explosive.HOTB erects a small shrine for an Irak war syndrome. It will certainly impress unpretentious viewers. My main reason for seeing it was Jackson's presence (this is not meant as an excuse!). I enjoyed some things, and do not dismiss the flick altogether.A short list of worse flicks—CRASH, the newer Pacino and De Niro films, Van Sant's films, etc. .I would have liked better a HOTB with Presley's role much extended, widened, explored,and,if possible,with a more _neurosed actor, with many atmospheric city scenes. (Maybe even Presley is not absolutely bad—only much below his role.) It's not a honest movie, yet it's not _un-endearing either. It's drama unintentionally turned to rubbish melodrama. To dream on, dear reader, this flick would of greatly benefited from some musical _psychedelism—the liquid, fluent psychedelic unseen landscapes ….The only story more than barely sketched is that of B. Presley—and it's a suggestive, quite interesting one. We find out practically nothing about Mme. Biel' and 50 Cent's characters—their previous life, etc., while Jackson's scenes are embarrassingly schmaltzy. Schmaltzy charm-less melodrama.HOTB is much better than rubbish like CRASH (so wisely termed by an IMDb writer, 'chicagoelise'—which I am glad to quote here—to be a sincere piece of trash—viz.:" would gladly, if not delightfully, accept 1,000 movies this adorably bad (she originally meant a new Craven shocker) over 1,000,000 sincere pieces of trash like "Crash", "Million Dollar Baby", "The House of Sand and Fog", and "Gladiator". Without disasters like "Red Eye", "Showgirls", and, ironically, "Crash" we wouldn't have had a basis of 'truly awful' with which to appreciate genuinely good, well-made movies.").HOTB, more modestly, belongs to the same class of Hollywoodian crap masquerading as drama ….HOTB is bad, enjoyable, recommended to all the philistines and soft—heads. Today it looks like Hollywoodian so—called dramas are only made for them. The collapse of the Hollywoodian drama.

moviemaster As I read the reviews, I can't help but think that the people who trash this movie are ardent Bush/War fans, for their criticism seems specious. It's far from being the best movie I've ever seen, or the best acting. What it is is a collection of accounts of how peoples' lives have been shattered by a political excursion that had no justification... and still doesn't. It shows the wasted lives and even defends the cause, which I thought made it more than impartial. Jackson's character defends the invasion as does Presley's. But all are overwhelmed by it and the tragic consequences of the conflict. The plot makes sense. The acting is fair, not terrible. The subject matter is handled evenly, presenting neither a pro war or con position, which is very hard to do. But for those who think that we must rally around the flag at all costs, this film is clearly an anathema. This invasion was started with lies and many people believe that we need to continue to lie to "Support the Troops." The best way to support the troops is to tell the truth, as this movie tries to do and to finally bring them home... not in coffins.