Thousand Yard Stare

This is clearly a low budget indie film, so don't go in expecting Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan. Having said that, if you're able to look past a few sparse battlefields, and decent, but not perfect VFX, then you'll find a pretty good movie.

The first 30 minutes or so are a bit slow, but once you're past that and you get into battle scenes and the rhythm of the non-linear the it really starts to pick up. It's also really more of a drama about the effects of PTSD than a straight forward war film. But of course the distributors want to push the action to sell DVDs.

Even with its flaws this was a surprisingly interesting movie to watch. The non-linear structure was well done and different than what you'd find in this genre. And as a film buff, I'd love to know more about the behind the scenes of the production to see how they pulled off what they did on a limited budget.

In conclusion, don't look down on a movie because it didn't have a hundred million dollars. There's serious merit in new voices outside Hollywood.

If you have ptsd, you will relate completely to the protagonist.

Survivors guilt, inability to reconcile the chances that led to survival and descent to dispair.

Inability to connect to loved ones, regular life and suicidal ideation / action.

Is it perfect? No. But those complaining about back and forth...., you are fine then trauma occurs and you relive things. That's why the film is created that way.

Only accepting what happened and confronting it helped.

Watching the journey of the protagonist was excruciating. Particularly when he was going to meet his wife and stopped for a drink.

This wasn't a large budget blockbuster but it does a better job of depicting trauma than most films to date.

This is one of the worst war movies I have ever seen. The battle scenes look like they were done by reenactors, the homefront scenes are stilted and full of stereotypes. The acting is awful and direction terrible. The only reason I gave it 3 stars is that it is trying (badly) to address PTSD.

Maybe if you are interested in the subject matter you can sit through this film, but I could not. The acting is so horrible and uninspiring. Bland would be the best word to describe every single performance in this film. The script was slow paced and not very well written.

Nothing was good about this film. Again - if you want to watch something about the subject matter it may appeal to you, but it is a terrible film with some of the worse acting every put onto film.

Not a big budget and clearly working with limited resources. But solid nonetheless.