this movie describe a truly horrific event and to be sure . but it all fall down from poor performance from all the cast . it be impossible to feel the emotion of almost any character and a all the emotional scene seem like parody of themselves . for example and a character be shoot at the start of the movie and and you get the clichéd desperate and be i gon na make it and sergeant . and yeah it ain not nothing and but it play out like a sketch from a wayans brother movie ( i do not know if they have make the war movie yet ) or something star leslie nielsen . the sergeant play by sean penn remind me of al bundy from marry with child and while fox be the great self deprecate good guy cliché you can imagine . thank god he curse and smoke during it . his emotional noooo . be definitely more suited to comedy like back to the future than so call serious movie such a this . to their credit and some of the main scene . ( without give too much away and where they actually perform some fairly horrific act ) . be well do and do make u take the subject matter seriously . but that be in spite of and not thanks to the acting .