Clocking in at just under three hours, writer-director Francesco Lucente's earnest attempt at making an Iraq War-era COMING HOME — or perhaps more accurately, a ROLLING THUNDER update — says many things at once without much perspective or clarity.
Discharged "under conditions less than honorable," Army reservist and veteran of the first Gulf War Jerry S. Rice (Jeremy Draven) returns from the Iraq War a broken man. He and his unit were charged with perpetrating a horrendous, My Lai-type massacre of innocent men, women and children in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, an atrocity they didn't commit but for which they all took the fall. Now back ...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
160 mins