"The audience's tears are more likely to result from boredom, irritation at Hans Zimmer's wretched fake-world-music score and inadvertent amusement at the thunderously earnest dialogue and Ms. Bellucci's awkward line readings. (She has now made movies in three languages; whether she can act in any of them is an open question.)"

A.O. Scott, New York Times

"The moral outrage of the atrocities is drowned out by the swelling music of every heroic American sacrifice, and the well-meaning plea for human rights that should be at the heart of this platoon melodrama becomes lost in the jungle."

Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Several scenes are trivialized by intrusive, geopolitical music by Hans Zimmer. The film leaves the inescapable impression that Walters is motivated less by humanitarian reasons than Dr. Kendricks' habit of forgetting to fully button her blouse."

John Stevenson, Boston Globe

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Alan