Battle for Haditha (2007)

Touches You

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I had to turn this movie off 3/4 of the way through. No joking. It is brutal to watch and the depiction of the Marines in this movie is horrifying. I understand some of the buildup "discussions" they have in the movie almost as if it was some documentary type, but of course they're still acting. Either way, there are major generalizations being implied in this movie. Very poor acting and phraseology if you wanna call it that.I read in earlier reviews some of the people talking about the lacking factual basis of the military scenes and I'm not even concerned with that. It just seems so fake to me with all the acting. That's on the side of the marines and insurgents as well. I would definitely NOT recommend watching this movie..

This is the worst movie I've ever seen! I ve been reading these reviewers who are cediting this movie and none of them seem to be judging the movie itself. They're all giving their own assessment on how they feel about the incident. This film has got nothing to do with a battle of any kind. It is a short story about two al qaeda cooperatives who plant a road side bomb, blow up one American jeep and kill one American! The Americans then take it upon themselves to kill four innocent by-standers who are in the wrong place at the wrong time while the two cooperatives responsible easily get away between two houses, shooting behind their backs as they run. The Marines then go on a rampage, killing the occupants of three houses; women and children, all unarmed of course. And thats it! There is no exchange of gunfire, there is no military strategy. It therefore cannot be considered to be a "Battle" and the title, no more than a marketing ploy.The acting is bad, the directing is worse. The filmic conventions of this type of genre are completely ignored; using Blare Whitch stlye photography and relying on video diaries in a vain attempt to acquaint the audience with the characters. If anything this makes the film more unrealistic.If you expect something on the lines "Black Hawk Down" then look the other way. There's not enough content in this story to produce something of the same calibre even if the director and writer knew what they were doing and this wasn't a low budget production (which it clearly is).

I put watching this movie off for so long because I basically knew I was going to have mixed feelings about it. This movie means a little more to me (and my family) than most people seeing I am a sibling of someone depicted in the movie. Granted this was just a movie and everyone is entitled to their opinion...it just upset me to see how my sibling was depicted in the film. From knowing my sibling, the director wasn't even close. Pretty sure he would feel the same way if someone depicted one of his family members incorrectly just to make a buck. I find exploiting horrible events to make money disturbing and disgusting. Movie says (synopsis of movie on back of the DVD case) that it was told from different perspectives...I want to know where my sibling and his comrades perspectives were in this movie?! Sigh..some will do anything and everything to make a name for themselves.

Great little film, interesting to see actions from both sides and the consequences of their actions. The fact that Nick was previously a documentary filmmaker is evident in the "keep it real" style of the film which doesn't pick sides and shows the eye for an eye war that it is based on, however i actually think that it is better than the 20-30 years of Broomfield's documentary film making that i have seen a sample of. For those interested in seeing this and a sample of some of Nicks best work including the other one of his feature films, which is also great, Ghosts, see 4od where about 10 of his films can be seen totally free. Thats what i did.