I wanted to like this film, but honestly, I thought there was really nothing new or earth shattering here. The movie basically takes scenes from previous war and prisoner of war films and rehash it here as if they were original. The Best Years of Our Lives, Coming Home, and Till The End of Time dealt, I thought, much better with Post Traumatic Stress. The concept of POWS being forced to kill a fellow prisoner is also not new; a 1950s film starring Richard Widmark and Richard Basehart about US POWS in the Korean War addressed that issue. I could go on and on, but the point is, there is nothing new in this film. If anything, the characters fall into various stereotypes from a million other movies. Toby McGuire does stand out and steals the film, but to me, it seems like he is overplaying the whole thing. Fair film.
Review of Brothers
