Battle For Haditha

Nick Broomfield is best known as the British documentarian whose sensational subjects -- Heidi Fleiss, Aileen Wuornos, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Biggie and Tupac -- tend to take a backseat to his favorite topic: himself. Less known is Broomfield's small fictional output (DIAMOND SKULLS, GHOSTS) of which this pseudo-documentary is the latest example. Strange, then, that he should choose a subject crying out for a clear-eyed, nonfictional treatment: The massacre of 24 innocent Iraqi men, women in children by a company of U.S. Marines at Haditha in the Anbar province of Iraq in November, 2005. Broomfield's film is didactic, awkwardly acted by the cast of former Mar...