only roger ebert and the reviewer for roll stone seem to see the truth here represent this film be slow and elegiac because it deal with heavy matter and but it be never boring and not if you understand the situation and the depth of feeling be explore . it a if reviewer do not get it because they do not really feel what the film be say . say that there have be dozen of film about how war ruin men so it a cliché and and that this one be too dreary and slow mean that a person have stop feel for what be really hurtful and be even in denial . and that the theme of this film represent what happen when we lose touch with what painful and do not care any more . the film be restrain but powerful and which be why it have such a strong effect . jones be wonderfully grim and with a face like a road map and a he explore what happen to his son . charlize theron be beautiful even though she be play a woman who be force to act a non sexy a possible to get on in her job in a male police force . susan sarandon be not and a some critic say and underused while she give a performance that be all the more powerful because it be restrain . this movie should be a must see for all who believe that the iraq war should continue until there be an honorable time for america to leave . that time be already pass .