Rating of
3/4
Stop-Loss Gets Lost At The End
GeminiSixty6 - wrote on 03/30/08
I really enjoyed this film. I went into it knowing that it was going to be more pure entertainment than war preaching like "In the Valley of Elah" was. I thought all the performances were good, but my only complaint about the acting comes in the cemetery scene after Tommy (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) kills himself. When Bradon (Ryan Phillippe) and Steve (Channing Tatum) start there yelling match in the cemetery I just felt like that was a little rushed and forced on the actors parts.
Director Kimberly Peirce did a wonderful job on this film. In no time at all I was engaged and felt some stronge emotion for these characters. It had a meaningful plot, good action, and some good humor scenes. I enjoyed myself all the way up the end. If you do not want to be spoiled then I suggest that you stop reading here.
At the end I really wanted Bradon to keep fighting for what he believed to be right. To me it just really felt like he gave in. Now I wouldn't have probably felt that way if he had gone back before Tommy died. Maybe then he would have been able to stop that. I suppose I just really wanted to see him get to DC and make more of a stand, but I guess you can't win them all.
So, if you want something that is more entertainment than preachy then I suggest checking out Stop-Loss. It really is worth taking a look at. It does have some good fact information at the end prior to the end credits rolling.
