The Worst Film Ever

One of my all time favorites.

How sad is this?

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

I was really amazed by this film - there is no actual action in it but is so emotionally strong! At first sight it looks like documentary but it's actually not. The topic - bringing home dead soldier - is really heart-breaking, involving all of us, thou not everyone of us has direct ties with the military. I was pleased that there was no propaganda, no politics, no religion - just simple truth and reality. And Kevin Bacon played his part so well - to catch and express that thin line between grief, sympathy, doubt and strict military training. No surprise he won golden globe for it. This film has to be seen by everyone, no matter where they live, what religion or political view they have.

First time seeing this, As a Navy Veteran of 10 + years I didn't get to finish the 20 year career that I had wanted to due to personal reasons. I have never felt quite right about it and always felt like I left the mission incomplete. After many years of financial struggles I finally found myself in a position a couple years ago to join the Disabled American Veterans of which I am now an Officer,The American Legion, and the VFW. I have made it now my personal mission to help Veterans in need to the best of my ability and with the help of these organizations as well. I even helped with getting our local DAV Chapter Honor Guard Unit started to pay respects to this country Veterans, (it also helped out the other organizations in the area that were lacking in membership to be able to form an Honor Guard). What I have seen at funerals over the past year has been very emotional for me and watching this film, literally just tore me apart knowing what these men go through, I am there for the final end result of their travels and having never served as an escort before I did not know all that they went through. The portrayal by Kevin Bacon and the rest of the cast during this movie deserve a sharp salute for a job well done

Hollywood does get it right now and then, and this is a movie that hit it's mark. Ironic, so few know about it. Why is this? It has no CGI and pandering language and adult situations. It is just a real movie acted superbly led by Kevin Bacon. Bacon is $$ in this role. There is never a doubt he is 100% his character. Reminded me a little of his role in A Few Good Men.American Sniper was good, this is better. Director Ross Katz was brilliant. The simplest movies are the most challenging. He never played too many notes or got his own merit in the way. Ridley Scott could not have made this movie. Michael Strobl's screenplay had the same maturity. What a blessing to know your written work was taken so seriously and handled so well by both the actors and movie making team, producing cinematic magic in this one!You will turn off the DVD player and feel dignified. No empty, cotton candy feeling here. This is a deeply penetrating movie and yet not so deep and dark it is disturbing. One of my favorite scenes is watching the young boy scouts holding flags during the honor parade. These little boys are becoming men as they take part in something so much greater than their own lives. Powerful moment and so needed in our shallow, pornographic culture.

"Taking Chance" is the story of Lt. Colonel Kevin Bacon accompanying the body of a fallen Marine from the body's arrival in the USA from Iraq to its final resting place in Wyoming. In one sense, it is a well crafted film--somber and respectful and encouraging us all to contemplate the lives and deaths of heroic soldiers, marines, sailors, and airmen.A deeper look, however, reveals it to be a shamelessly manipulative bit of propaganda that would not hesitate to stoop to any stereotype, cliché, or contrivance to beat you over the head with its militarist message.Ultimately, the message here is not of tragic, senseless loss, but of deification. "If you die wearing the uniform of a US Marine, in death you will become a demi-God." It is little different than the Japanese militarists telling their charges that they become kami (spirit-gods) at Yasukuni Shrine or of the elaborate militarist veneration of the dead of the Roman Legions (see: Titus Andronicus).And the worst part about it? It frames it in such a way, as all well-crafted propaganda does, that if you are somehow against the militarist message of this movie, that you are somehow against the best interests of the USA and of individual Americans--a blatant lie if there ever was one.