Stop-loss

Excellent. Powerful. Impressive.


I really liked this movie: the action was continuous and evocative, vigorous and compelling; the acting was superb.

Ryan Phillippe has quickly become a favorite: even his accent was good. Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, all were quite good, as was, in fact, all the cast.

Stop-loss refers to soldiers who are sent back to war after their tours of duty ended. The brutality of that, the impact of the life of a soldier, is demonstrated graphically. This is a major film, an important war film.

Peter Travers, of Rolling Stone, gave it 3.5 stars; I give it 4.