Stop-Loss

Stop-Loss
by Kimberly Peirce

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Actor: Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ryan Phillippe
Director: Kimberly Peirce
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount / MTV

DVD Reviews of Stop-Loss

DVD Review: Flag of Our Fathers for the Iraq generation
Summary: 4 Stars

Though it feels, at times, like an MTV video, this seems like a sincere attempt to show what some of today's soldiers go through when they are forced to return to Iraq after one, or sometimes, two tours, against their wills. Graphic violence in the beginning, and it pervades the middle sections when it seems like violence will erupt any minute as the boys take a little time off in Brazos, Tx. Good looking cast. Nothing wrong with this one as entertainment.

DVD Review: Mixed emotions
Summary: 4 Stars

A story of soldiers returning from the Iraq war, coming back into a more uncertain world than they thought. One of them, Ryan Phillippe's character, gets stop-lossed, ie forced to extend his time in Iraq after the end of his contract term. He reacts 'badly' and explores desertion.

As expected the movie received very different evaluations, and my own reaction to it was also mixed. There is an overdose of patriotism in the beginning, when our Texas small town boys are returning from the Iraq war to an exuberant welcome. One knows right away that this serves as contrast with the later despair of broken social relations, disturbed minds of young men returned from horror (as in every other previous war), and the extreme unfairness, to the victim, of the stop-loss rule.

The evaluation of the movie is much influenced by reviewers' view on the Iraq war as such, but I think one ought to separate those two questions. For the people involved here, right or wrong of the invasion and occupation is not really the issue, but survival and re-integration are.
The rightfulness of the war is beyond doubt for the protagonists, which is probably very realistic.

Has the movie handled the subject well? All in all I am not fully satisfied with it, though there are strong episodes. The whole is somewhat too much of a message carrier. More about issues than about real people, as somebody observed with truth.

DVD Review: Better than people say it is!
Summary: 4 Stars

I thought this was a great film with a great cast. I heard alot of people didn't like it, and I can't understand why. It's very moving, and keeps you involved from beginning to end. Definitly worth seeing.

DVD Review: Stop - loss
Summary: 5 Stars

My order came in on time and the DVD was awesome. All in All it was good.

DVD Review: Boys do not cry
Summary: 4 Stars

It's one of the most realistic movies of Iraq war and simply a dramatic story of an impact Iraq does on soldiers and a modern American society.

One could sometimes feel Texas streets were more dangerous than Iraq's ones.

It is hardly anti-war movie also none wants to die, which is natural.

Description of Stop-Loss

Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe) makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind with the help and support of his family and his best friend Steve Shriver (Channing Tatum) who served with him in Iraq. Along with their other war buddies Brandon and Steve try to make peace with civilian life. Then against Brandon s will the Army orders him back to duty in Iraq which upends his world. The conflict tests everything he believes in: the bond of family the loyalty of friendship the limits of love and the value of honor.System Requirements:Running Time: 111 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA/MILITARY & WAR Rating:?R UPC:?097363476542 Manufacturer No:?347654

Kimberly Peirce's long-hatching follow-up to Boys Don't Cry is another issue-driven look at its era: Stop-Loss hinges on U.S. military policy allowing Iraq War soldiers to be returned to combat even after their official hitches are up. In this case, a band of brothers return to home turf in Brazos, Texas, only to discover that team leader Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe) has gotten a Stop-Loss order to head back to the Middle East. After some flavorful sketches of small-town Texas life and the awkwardness of re-adjustment, the movie somewhat clumsily hits the road, where there's more wheel-spinning than deep insight. Peirce and co. seem to want to hit all the Iraq War bases, which may be one reason the film lacks a strong focus. Supporting soldiers Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are rather more interesting than Phillippe's brooding hero, and Abbie Cornish is stuck in a thankless town-between-two-lovers storyline. It's sincere as all get-out, but Stop-Loss feels like a project that began with an issue and a cause, rather than compelling characters. --Robert Horton

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