I think I set myself up. I really wanted to like this flick and I guess my expectations might have been a bit too high. I wanted epic and gut wrenching and what I got was mediocrity. The story sounded really interesting, but it never really grabbed me. I think that might have something to do with how disjointed everything about this movie seemed. Just when things would start to get gritty, Spike would come out of left field with these unfunny moments that had me thinking the guy has been hanging out with Roberto Benigni. Then he would start up with a romantic subplot and never really do anything with it. It felt like he just couldn’t figure out what kind of movie he wanted to make. I heard that Roger Ebert said this movie had the best comabat sequence he had ever seen next to Saving Private Ryan. I don’t think Roger and I saw the same edit of this movie.