Stop Loss

Diana and I watched another movie, Stop Loss. It was really good. It was very timely, as it was a movie about how soldiers in Iraq are being forced to go back to Iraq once their tour is over.

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The movie starts on the last day this platoon is going to be in Iraq. They get ambushed by some rebels, and a lot of the unit dies. The leader (Ryan Phillippe) is very distraught. He goes home and a couple of his buddies come with him. They are all from a small town in Texas. Once they get back to America they are celebrated as heroes. Ryan Phillippe goes back to his life with ease over the first weekend. His other buddies seem to have a much harder time with it. On Monday they reported back to the base to turn in their stuff and all of them were "stop-lossed" which means that the army is stopping the loss of all the soldiers as their tours end. Most of the guys freak out but can deal. Phillippe completely freaks out, he beats up the military police that are supposed to control him and leaves town. Once he leaves his other buddies start breaking down. One of them kills himself. Another can not handle the pressure and flips out. Phillippe comes back for his buddies funeral where him and his best buddie get in a fight in the cemetery where the buddy finally tells Phillippe that without him the unit is lost and all of them will die. At the end Phillippe comes back to the army so he can help his buddies.

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This movie was really good. I give it 4 stars out of 5. It was well done, but there was some pretty cheesey parts. Rent it and watch it, you should enjoy it.