Jarhead

Jarhead almost seemed to me to be more about how a bunch of undersexed 20 year olds waste time rather than killing some Iraqis. Oh, yeah, that's exactly what it's about. Thus it never quite gets to be anything more than an intermittently funny, intermittently interesting film about the first Iraq War. Nowhere near as good as Three Kings, although somewhat less revisionist in its complaints about the American army. Then again, this wasn't trying to say anything, I don't think. If it was, it failed. Should have been better, possibly by being more interesting. No, that's pretty much it, my complaint is that the film isn't interesting. The book's probably better.