Cinerant

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There’s never been a more honest marketing tag.  

Jarhead is the most confounding, disappointing film to hit the screen in months.  While critics may carp about Cameron Crowe jumping the shark with Elizabethtown, Sam Mendes is much closer to it with his third film that sets its eyes on the military.  Though it purports to be a dark comedic look at the Gulf War, it instead turns out to be a confused mess of nonsense that goes nowhere.  Simply, the movie sucks.

The film is over two hours of mess, confusion, and pointlessness.  The first half of the movie tries to be a poor retread of Full Metal Jacket.  The second half devolves into an incoherent mess that strives for brilliance when in all honesty, it doesn’t even come close to adequacy.  

I’ve tried to figure out what specifically to say about what doesn’t work with the film, and while there are definite particulars, there’s really nothing to say about Jarhead other than “welcome to the suck.”  

posted by cinegod @ 8:49 PM