Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

shakercoola An interesting documentary about one of the few mainstream reporters to live in Iraq near-continuously since before the American invasion and gained early acclaim due to his willingness to establish contacts with the Kurdish Peshmerga and the Iraqi insurgency and early days of the Islamic State. Frankly, many scenes are obscene, and I do not recommend anyone of a nervous disposition to watch this film. It is, however, an insight into the brutality of warfare up close which I don't recall seeing in any mainstream film release. What it doesn't do is give much insight on 'Al-Zarqawi'. It is more of a personal account of his difficult time. A visceral, harrowing distillation of the reporter's seven years on the front line.

Alex Smout To understand war, we have to experience it as a soldier. Michael Ware is that soldier, and we join him every step of the way. Whilist this movie is gory and bloody (real corpses and stuff) and quite possibly the most disturbing movie I've seen, it really captures the essence of war. Months ago, you would have found me making Jihad and Muslim jokes (not to be offensive; I respect their religion and understand it's all about peace), now, I feel bad for making those jokes; I never understood terrorists in general or what they were capable of, until I saw this movie. If you want to understand war yourself, you have to first put yourself in the eyes of a soldier and their shoes. This movie does just that.

Leftbanker I remember sitting in a bar in downtown Seattle on the eve of the American invasion of Iraq when a young couple sitting beside me interrupted my conversation with my friends. They objected to my objection to the coming war. I asked them if they knew the difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. Of course, they didn't to which I added, "You will know the difference soon enough." It's so utterly ironic that we Americans are shielded from the true horrors of war by our censorship yet grotesque violence permeates our films and TV shows. I heard so many "warnings" about this documentary, about how "disturbing" the violence it depicts and I wonder what people thought war was at its core. War is about destroying people, literally destroying human beings en masse. The people murdered don't get up after it's all over and go on to do something else, like the extras in an Arnold Schwarzenegger film. Real violence isn't fun or cool like it's made out to be by Quentin Tarantino. War is about destroying lives and those lives destroyed go on to haunt the lives of those left living.War destroys the ability of people to go on living, as we are seeing now in Syria which is a direct result of the Iraq War. These cities in Syria can't be rebuilt nor can much of those in Iraq that were bombed almost to extinction. Of course, all of this is pretty remote for Americans living on the other side of the world.Another thing never considered is that for Muslim men violence can serve as a substitute for sex. I saw this in Lebanon in the 1980s. If women and alcohol are proscribed in your culture what outlet do young men have? Now all young men take this route but it is usually the fail-safe path of losers Muslims like we are seeing in Belgium and France. Losers who can't meet women or too cowardly to admit they are homosexual are turning to suicide bombings as a form of redemption.

dannybeans It's a little disingenuous to claim that 'Al-Zarqawi' is a star in this documentary as if the creator was his 'go to guy'. I got no particular feeling of this at all, despite claims made during the documentary. I won't go into why, it would ruin the story. Despite these claims, it is a pretty good documentary and worth a watch for the sheer nakedness of the war displayed in all it's horror. Why we have censorship in countries is beyond me. War is war and should never be taken lightly. The age of some of these soldiers is unbelievable and the things and decisions they are exposed to on a daily basis is horrendous that it's really no surprise when they come back and develop PTSD.