Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

horstzer War Criminals showed as Heros in a Drama-Film. What will be the next Film? Heros of the ISIS-Road to Moussul?

cleishmains I really can't understand all the negative reviews this series has garnered as I really enjoyed it. It's not the best acted but it depicts a true series of events and does an excellent job of showing how badly the American forces had prepared for urban warfare at that time. Sending an open truck, without a radio and full of troops into streets of multi-storey buildings packed with well armed insurgents is obviously, in hindsight, just madness but that was what the American military did. In a similar fashion the UK sent out unarmoured Land Rover Defenders before finding out that they tended to get blown up by unscrupulous terrorists. Lessons were learned the hard way back then and the series does a good job of showing that.Yes the "homeland" stuff is occasionally a bit cheesy but people "Get over yourselves!" and see the entire series for, overall, a relatively inexpensive good bit of TV entertainment.

cidavr I had hoped, because it was Nat Geo doing this, that this would have strong production value and a good story. I was sorely disappointed. The wrong people are writing, producing and directing these "films." These people are left wing coastal dwellers that don't have a thing in common with the characters for whom they write. What they write is propaganda with themes that serve people like themselves. They portray the people of Iraq as sympathetic Ma and Pa Kettles. They blandly copy the "folks at home" aspect straight out of "We Were Soldiers" because they want to sell the story to as many people as they can (female viewers), not because it serves the story. They think that putting actors into uniforms and vehicles with weapons that look and sound real is enough. They don't know anything about the warriors they portray and they don't understand the reasons or the motivations or the lessons of war. My advice to people who keep making these movies: Don't waste your money or our time.

rogerplatttv After viewing part I and II, I found this to be a well produced contemporary war drama. In my opinion, the devoutly Christian aspect of the characters detracts severely from the telling of a good story. I am sure it will leave secular viewers like myself feeling like you do when your company softball team captain asks everyone to bow their heads in prayer before the game as if we are all "good Christians" or at least respectful heathens. Should I assume that Nat Geo is now the Christ Channel?