Home Of The Brave

Producer-turned-director Irwin Winkler's well-intentioned drama about a group of U.S. soldiers who return home traumatized after tours of duty in Iraq starts with a bang and ends in a long, protracted whimper. Just as the members of a National Guard unit from Spokane, Washington, learn that they're finally scheduled to return home, they're sent out on a routine escort mission to the nearby town of Al Hayy. It's basically a humanitarian run — the soldiers are there to drop off much-needed medical supplies and a doctor — designed to foster goodwill among the increasingly resentful Iraqis, but soon after arriving in the city they find themselves trapped in a n...