W2
11Oct11
Yeah. This film is amazing and predictable. It is odd to feel like it is at once essential viewing and at the same time a caricature of itself.
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Stefano Ponti
1Dec11
Documentary about endless war against shepherds, civilian, militia, in a sovereign country invaded by a bunch of "cowboy" volunteers. Those people should ask: "What am i doing here?", instead of shoot to hundreds meters far targets. Everything without beeing aware of what they are doing or shooting at.
Erik Villasenor
19Jul11
it's to bad some of the film seemed like filler and contained a lot of predictable elements indicative of the "war documentary genre."
Erik Villasenor
19Jul11
Restrepo deals with one of the saddest subjects I can think of. Young people killing young people. Humanity destroying itself. This is a grim documentation on the horrors of war and the bonds created out of desperation for survival. This is a stunningly evokative film. It's truely shocking when one of the soldiers was smiling while describing the death his comrade, as if he realized the absurdity of his situation.
Christopher Bentley Owen
20Apr11
Tim Hetherington was killed in Misrata, Libya. He passed away this morning. http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/04/tim-hetherington-41-killed-in-libya.html This film will always serve as a testament to his bravery.
M Klein
30Mar11
Negotiates the fine line between showing respect for the Marines involved and the utter pointlessness of their mission. The local people seem to be stuck in a kind of hell. Not at all surprised they say one thing to the soldiers and do another - how else to survive? The landscape: harsh, beautiful, unforgiving. And this is still going on.
jimmy3vil
16Mar11
Almost as noteworthy for what we aren't shown as what we are, Restrepo is an immediately engaging, deceptively straightforward documentary. Opening with the overconfident, gung-ho hollering of a young platoon member on his way to war, the film becomes smaller and quieter, focusing less on the problems of war and more on the problems of men, exploring trauma and masculinity in a violent, isolated, illogical world.
hakaima sadamitsu
24Feb11
It is as detached as it is no-bullshit. I like it as much as I can stand yet another war doc/film.
Edward Copeland
30Jan11
An intense documentary that takes you inside a company of soldiers in Afghanistan in a way no footage ever has before. http://eddieonfilm.blogspot.com/2011/01/fear-is-always-there.html
Jeremiah Hammerling
27Jan11
This dangerous documentary somehow manages to capture simultaneously the brotherhood between soldiers, the tragedy of loss on both sides (there's one particularly heart-breaking scene where they hit a house from an aerial strike and go to investigate the wreckage, they fling open a door and its a bunch of young children who are huddle together bleeding and injured), while showing us the insanity and confusion of War.
RusticMachine
27Jan11
Steve, did they not do those things willingly in front of a camera?STFU.Anybody complaining that the film was not "political" or was somehow "detached" REALLY can STFU. Yea, lets make an up close and personal documentary about soldiers,death, and war and then turn it on its side to show that their friends deaths were in vain. Brilliant,very respectful...The political neutrality was intentional.
Steve Macfarlane
20Jan11
I actually found this to be somewhat pat, and mildly exploitative - soldiers either stare moon-facedly into the camera as they talk about their fears and fallen comrades, or they slap each other's asses, get drunk, and talk about buttsex back in the States. Great footage and good interviews, but it feels like a forced duality-of-man picture cooked up in an ivory tower.
FailedImitator
20Jan11
Haven't seen this yet, but whenever a documentary claims to look at something "objectively," I most often than not find it extremely dishonest, or shallow, or both. Well, I guess we'll see.
El Edgariin
30Dec10
A very potent but disturbing examination of the war in Afghanistan. Love how it objectively documents the daily motions of the soldiers. The physical and psychological torment that these brave people experience is devastating and disheartening.
Inner Pattern
10Dec10
Possibly the best documentary of the year and one of the best films I've seen all year. The message of the film is cliche... War Is Hell but it doesn't make it any less powerful. Even if you think the war is a fool's errand I think this will raise your respect for soldiers. It certainty did for me. Most of these guys are psychologically F'd up from where the film documents and it's heart wrenching stuff.
Matthew_Lucas
1Dec10
A powerful and incisive look at US soldiers' lives while fighting in Afghanistan. Refreshingly without agenda, the film objectively observes, offering a rare and fascinating look inside the Afghan conflict.
