Starring:
Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Joseph
Gordon-Levi…
Review:
Here’s the first major movie of the new year that touches
greatness, and damn if there isn’t a curse hanging over it.
Stop-Loss, directed with ferocity and feeling by Kimberly
Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry), is up against the war raging
between audiences and films about Iraq. Box-office casualties last
year include Lions for Lambs, Rendition,
Redacted, Grace Is Gone and the unfairly scorned
In the Valley of Elah.
Stop-Loss has the juice to break the jinx. The
emotional battlefield on which Peirce paints her canvas strikes a
universal chord that transcends politics and preaching. Peirce, who
co-wrote the script with Mark Richard, takes us inside the minds
and hearts of soldiers who enlisted after 9/11. Why? “To get the
people who had done this,” in the words of Peirce, whose
brother…

Rating: 3 Stars