Not to be confused with Ben Coccio's ZERO DAY (2003), which examines the events leading up to a Columbine-style school massacre, this shallow, navel-gazing film about three young men coming to terms with the reality of being drafted to fight in Iraq is agonizingly trivial despite strong performances from leads Chris Klein, Elijah Wood and Jon Bernthal.
Set in a near future in which the draft has been reinstated, director Bryan Gunnar Cole and screenwriter Rob Malkani's film follows three friends, all of whom met as students at NYC's elite Stuyvesant public high school, as they deal with the implications of having been drafted. Novelist Aaron Fellner (Wood) ...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
96 mins