Battle for Haditha on DVD (2007)

Shocking reality of what the Americans are doing!!!

poz81 from Cheshire, England [Highly rated reviewer] , 17/03/2008

This film is bad news for the Americans, shows truely how dumb there army is!!!

Watch the film and see what you think!!

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bad taste

A customer from Bournemouth , 17/04/2008

Well i have to admit i switched this film off after a while, i just didnt like the story line it was too much to sit and watch. Too much killing of innocent people because of american soliders loosing the plot. this film sickened me. I love shoot em`ups but this one came in bad taste. 0/10

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Even Handed Account

A customer from Worcester , 21/03/2008

Nick Broomfield provides the antidote to Michael Moore's one sided rants in this gripping and moving account of the events at Haditha.

There is no getting round the fact that it happened, the film makes no judgements or excuses, just shows you a fair account.

The real villains of the piece are shown to be the insurgents, and the real victims the ordinary Iraqis trying to live their lives.

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No-one can judge.

pEst31 from London [Highly rated reviewer] , 14/05/2008

A very good exercise in showing the reasons that led to the actions of the people on all sides of this war. It shows you that you can't really judge anyone. These people (on both sides) are being pushed to limits that YOU, seating on your comfortable sofa in Great Britain, can't even begin to imagine, let alone say that you wouldn't commit similar atrocities if found in the same situation. If you, as a constantly terrified marine saw pieces of your friend scattered after a road side explosion that near killed you too, or as an Iraqi saw your husband and son just killed for absolutely no reason, or your children starving after your life job was taken away and given to an American corporation, with the added humiliation of having to let American soldiers into your house to turn it upside down looking for insurgents... who knows what you'd end up doing...

In the end, despite their crimes, all these people (BOTH insurgents and US soldiers) are victims! They all committed monstrosities they would never have committed if they hadn't been put in such a terrible extreme situation by the REAL criminals who, for one, are the ONLY ones gaining from the situation, and shamefully (and this makes me bitterly angry) will go to the grave without ever facing a court of law for their crimes of war...

Away from this and more into the actual movie, the beginning is not very good... it just shows US soldiers hanging out, improvising rubbish conversations like I guess they'd have in real life, the dialogues are quite poor. Of course it all gets very powerful after the action kicks in.

Elliot Ruiz has a powerful performance, conveys the authority of a leader with impressive realism and knowledgeability. The fact that all soldiers are actual veterans of Iraq and all Iraqis are actual exiled Iraqis was very important to add to the realism. Whenever they cry, it's quite harrowing because many times they're actually crying for their past experiences and for their dead loved ones...

A must see, will hopefully make you realise more clearly that it's not us 'liberators' (good) versus them insurgents (evil), but it's actually THEM people in power (evil) versus ALL of us (good). And 'ALL of us' should get together and put these criminals in jail.

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The first casualty of war is sanity...

A customer from Manchester , 27/05/2008

Excellent portrayal of events in Haditha, made with astonishing reality with amazing attention to details...not for the faint hearted. It's scary to see where the world is heading...anyone who wishes to see the brutalities of war shouldn't miss this. Another one to watch is 'Mark of Cain' which is on similar theme and equally well made...

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bad taste

A customer from Bournemouth , 17/04/2008

Well i have to admit i switched this film off after a while, i just didnt like the story line it was too much to sit and watch. Too much killing of innocent people because of american soliders loosing the plot. this film sickened me. I love shoot em`ups but this one came in bad taste. 0/10

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