Jarhead

Several critics are faulting Jarhead for presenting an elegant view of America's soldiers during the first Gulf War without any sort of social viewpoint. It is a movie that walks up to some of the most urgent and painful issues of our present circumstance, clears its throat loudly and, with occasional flourishes of impressive rhetoric, says nothing, writes A.O. Scott in the New York Times. Rick Groen in the Toronto Globe and Mail puts it this way: The result is a war picture that, trying to pass off fidelity to the book as objectivity, sacrifices any voice of its own, and ends up not knowing what to think. Nevertheless, Jake Gyllenhaal is receiving much praise for his performance as a Marine looking for action in the war but getting little. Stephen Hunter writes in the Washington Post: What's so good about the movie is Gyllenhaal's refusal to show off; he doesn't seem jealous of the camera's attention when it goes to others and is content, for long stretches, to serve simply as a prism though which other young men can be observed. Philip Wuntch in the Dallas Morning News takes particular notice of Gyllenhaal's minimalist yet riveting performance. Steven Rea comments in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Gyllenhaal is having quite a year, with a key role in the under-appreciated Proof and a brilliant turn opposite Heath Ledger in the forthcoming (and heartbreaking) Brokeback Mountain. His work as Swofford in Jarhead is strong.

Several critics are faulting Jarhead for presenting an elegant view of America's soldiers during the first Gulf War without any sort of social viewpoint. It is a movie that walks up to some of the most urgent and painful issues of our present circumstance, clears its throat loudly and, with occasional flourishes of impressive rhetoric, says nothing, writes A.O. Scott in the New York Times. Rick Groen in the Toronto Globe and Mail puts it this way: The result is a war picture that, trying to pass off fidelity to the book as objectivity, sacrifices any voice of its own, and ends up not knowing what to think. Nevertheless, Jake Gyllenhaal is receiving much praise for his performance as a Marine looking for action in the war but getting little. Stephen Hunter writes in the Washington Post: What's so good about the movie is Gyllenhaal's refusal to show off; he doesn't seem jealous of the camera's attention when it goes to others and is content, for long stretches, to serve simply as a prism though which other young men can be observed. Philip Wuntch in the Dallas Morning News takes particular notice of Gyllenhaal's minimalist yet riveting performance. Steven Rea comments in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Gyllenhaal is having quite a year, with a key role in the under-appreciated Proof and a brilliant turn opposite Heath Ledger in the forthcoming (and heartbreaking) Brokeback Mountain. His work as Swofford in Jarhead is strong.

the worse of the worse war movie ever made making the United States military out to be a bunch of masturbating, undisciplined, murder hungry pukes completely morally detached.In another time this kind of crap would have been seen as seditious, treasonous propaganda.Worse of all the trailer is completely misleading.You hope you might see a true life scenario of what?s going on in parts of the world half of us can?t even fathom as we go through our daily lives.instead you get an altered demoralizing hollywood agenda.