The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S.
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Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Best movie ever!
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Three Iraq vets are back in the States. Sgt T.K. Poole (Michael Pena) is going home to his fiancée in Vegas. Pvt Colee Dunn (Rachel McAdams) is returning her boyfriend's guitar to his family in Vegas. Sgt Fred Cheever (Tim Robbins) is retired and going home to his wife in St. Louis. The three are stranded at JFK Airport and they rent a minivan for a road trip.Rachel McAdams is oddly funny. In fact, all three actors do a good job. They have great chemistry together. It's like a three way boxing match. They fight, they laugh, they cry, and they hug. We have three solid actors doing some pretty interesting gymnastics.A lot of things happen on this trip. Some of it is too out there. Let's just say the tornado is a little too much.
there is no comedy in this movie, there is no war but war related, drama maybe but not really. its mostly a road trip movie. That on the side, movie itself is so so. main characters are well developed and acted out. they are well portrait as in a mix mash of 3 completely different "types" of soldiers. any other characters involved are pale and not worth mentioning. But that's it for me. Nothing else i found interesting or special about this flick. It is straight forward 90minutes of conversations and couple of situations they run into on the trip. camera work and directing don't bring much to it either. shots of states nature side fill in some blanks but all in all i forget pretty much everything but the characters after movie ended. all in all not a complete waste of time but not really entertaining or emotionally moving. 5/10 is plenty comparing to 7/10 at the moment.
I saw this film recently and its very entertaining indeed!!!,may be a little subtle at times the film makes up an excellent story with an equally good performances.Its a story about three people from the army,complete strangers at first who ultimately start to find about each other on a road trip that lies ahead.The film is a mixture of comedy and drama in an almost perfect way.I don't have much more to say about it but i do recommend this one to the viewers,so if you wanna pass another 100 minutes or so id say go ahead and i am sure you won't regret your decision,road trip movies are usually interesting and this is no exception..
I sat down to this film not knowing anything beyond what the trailer depicted...and I had only a vague memory of that. Is it a drama, a comedy, a what...? I can honestly say that I think the answer is yes. To all. It's the most honest, solid, watchable film I've seen in a long time. Nothing seemed forced, gratuitous, or pandering... it's just a well told, and acted, human story. Neither a magical, nor let-down ending...unless one would count "I wish more films could be made this well" as a let down.So, that's my opinion, which doesn't mean much...unless you are like me, and enjoy the quality of a film more than the franchise future possibilities of one.