over act and heavy hand and full of speech and preachy and on the nose and and over stylize in a way only mtv could be guilty of and stop loss be agit prop garbage . i expect a lot more with talented young actor such a joseph gordon levitt and ryan philippe and but screenwriter or director kimberly peirce do a hatchet job of portray the ill effect of war on american youth . i be sure she do some work research the iraq war and the young men fight in it and but you would never guess it from watch stop loss . in many way this mess remind me of catherine hardwicke lord of dogtown and an equally inept and overly stylize and tv movie like waste of solid subject matter . http represent or or eattheblinds . blogspot . com or .