The story is engaging and provides what is probably a much-closer-to-reality view of what war in Iraq was like than typical action movies. Even the gunfire and explosions are different (and presumably real) enough from traditional movies that they somehow feel real - and like many aspects of the movie quickly deliver that "oh....so that's what it must really be like....wow" moment.

Unfortunately, the director over-used the Blair-Witch / Bourne "Let's shake the camera a lot through the whole movie" technique to where I was constantly distracted and pulled away from the more intense emotional drama of what really can go on in war. I almost shut the movie off half-way through because it was so bad. If they released a non-shaky version of the movie I'd give it 7 or 8 stars, but as edited, I wouldn't recommend it and would barely give it 3 stars.