Thank You for Your Service

This was a very difficult movie to watch. Rather than a war movie, it's an after-the-war movie with the returning soldiers all struggling to cope with different degrees of physical and mental disability. Betrayed by loved ones they left at home, struggling with brain injuries due to road-side bomb attacks, plagued with survivor guilt and all of them let down by the Army and Veterans Administration that's supposed to be helping them.

The movie it is most like is the outstanding "The Best Years of Our Lives" which was a multi-Oscar winner in its day, following how three war veterans try, with varying degrees of success, to reclaim their civilian lives. "Thank You for Your Service" is a much more brutal version of that story in terms of language and emotional angst of the survivors. Both are well worth watching.

A mixer of war, drama and pure adventure. The movie is a ballance equillibrium of all these aspects. The movie starts with the early war actions of military personnel in iraq. But they return after war and haunted by those memories.Those memories shattering their personal life, their dreams and emotions, their surroundings...

This movie is a different genre movie..not a typical fast action or mysterious thriller movies...not an excellent dreamy sci-fi movie...rather it is a movie of true passion of life..A movie containing real life drama..real heart and mind...real flesh and blood..slow but steady..

Acting is superb.Most of the movie is full of nostalgic scenes of battlefield.They are true colour of life. Most members have acted well enough to visualize the full drama.

Critics may have many opinions of their own. I don't know what they will say about the film. But i have enjoyed the movie very much.Now it's your turn.

His film is very well done, the performances are great, the direction is great, and overall it's an excellent look at the effects of PTSD and the life that these guys come home to after fighting a useless and futile war. I call it the Cheney after effect because these guys went into a war without having any idea what they were coming back to, and they came back to a VA that completely betrayed them, because the budget was never there to take care of these guys after they devoted their hearts and souls to fighting for their nation. It's a real indictment of the VA but it's absolutely true from everything I'm told.

This is a very powerful film that just tugs at your heart. Not what I would call entertainment, but a great movie. Cheney, Bush Jr., Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz should have been tried at the Hague.

I personally served 5 combat tours between Iraq and Afghanistan. Each time I returned, I found myself having a harder time separating myself from the military. I ended up being career because it was all I knew. It cost me 4 marriages, 3 children, and my mental health. My current wife (#4) is trying to help me stay on my feet and walk a civil path. Between pills for pain and many meds for psychiatric treatment I am slowly moving on. With movies like this, I am able to take what I can and fix each problem.

This movie is a cold true reality for the family's that struggle with PTSD from combat. This is exactly how it is. This movie is the first in a long time that shows the truth. The opening scenes, are exactly what it is like. And this is a hard movie to watch for those who have served and the family's that struggle with the effects of war on there loved ones. For those who never served, You have no place to judge this movie so harsh.