Saving Jessica Lynch (2003)

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Saving Jessica Lynch - Please! Ms. Lynch did nothing spectacular. She was just another POW.How many POWs have their been in the history of war andstatecraft? Where are their movies? Where are their stories? Whydoes Lynch get painted as the American Sweetheart. I'll tell you why. It's all part of the pathetic excuse of U.S.propaganda to try to justify an illegal war. Where are the so-calledweapons of mass destruction? The only reason the U.S. invadedIraq is because George W. Bush is a coward. Out of his so-called"Axis of Evil," Iraq is the weakest. They have been under heavy U.S.sanction since the Gulf War. How could they create weapons ofmass destruction? They can't. Plain and simple. Why not go afterIran or North Korea? Iran is an unknown and the North Koreanswould kick America's ass. They don't care about the U.S. Hell,they'd shoot nukes at the Americans. The U.S. knows if they goagainst the North Koreans, then the Chinese get involved and theAmericans don't want to f--k with the Chinese.

Overall, the made for TV movie was well acted. It was good to see that the focus really was not on Jessica Lynch, but rather on Mohammed Al-Raheif. If you've read his book (which this movie is based on), you will see how he risked everything just to save this woman. He really was the hero and it's too bad that SO MUCH attention was put on Lynch.Good things about the movie: well-acted, focused on the Iraqi, felt like you were in Iraq, visual and sound effects acceptableBad things about the movie: a little slow paced, some of the scenes don't seem to match the Al-Raheif's book, visual and sound effects could have been better.

Saving Jessica Lynch: a first-impressions reviewThumbs up.I thought this was a good movie. It did not romanticize or heroicize Pfc. Lynch or what she endured. NBC didn't make her a female Rambo. The movie spent a lot of time showing what her Iraqi co-rescuer, Mohammed al-Rehaief, risked to tell the Americans about her confinement.The Nasariyeh battle sequence was well done. My only complaint would be showing the fedayeen just standing in the middle of the street, hip shooting their AK-47s. That's a good way to (a) get killed, as a fair number of them did and (b) shoot the sky, not your targets. But for all know, the fedayeen there really did that. Heck, in Baghdad they charged Abrams tanks with pickup trucks, so their open-battle skills seem not to have been very great.There was a lot of action about the firefight what wasn't presented, of course, but the movie was not about the whole battle. It tracked Lynch and those involved directly with her.It was good to see the American military officers and enlisted members portrayed with decency and humanity. The Iraqi medical staff were sympathetically presented, which accords with what I recall was written about them once Nasiriyah was secured and western media moved in. The fedayeen leader was something of a caricature, but on the other hand, when you portray Nazis or those like them, can you really overplay their evil?The sequence when the SOF uncovered the American bodies from the sand with their hands could have easily been overplayed. But it was understated and evocative without being maudlin.All in all, this movie was a worthy presentation for Veterans Day weekend. Kudos to NBC.PS - I am a retired US Army artillery officer.

One of the most boring TV Movies I've ever seen. This girl got lost, knocked unconscious, and was later rescued two weeks later. And she received a medal for it. The only thing more asinine is that some execs at NBC thought this would make a good movie.Politics aside, this movie is pretty much what you'd expect from a story that isn't there: boring. The only parts even remotely interesting is the opening 5 minutes where the convoy is attacked. The parts about Lynch explaining why she went into the military, talking with friends about her private life, etc: no one cares. There wasn't anything in this movie that gave you a personal look into the war in Iraq that you couldn't find from any 5 minute summary from CNN.comHopefully, low ratings will keep them from airing this trash a second time.