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Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: Unapologetically political, this intimate and heart wrenching profile of an Iraq veteran may be rough around the edges but takes a potent stance with determination and compassion.
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Theatrical Release
Synopsis: Tomas Young is another casualty of the war in Iraq. After less than a week on duty, a bullet wound to the back left him paralyzed. This emotional documentary follows the veteran as he returns home... [More]
Director: Ellen Spiro, Phil Donahue
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It's the soldier in Iraq who fights on in the face of public apathy at home. The hope in this vital film is that the voices of soldiers will be raised. They will fight on until their mission is accomplished and the Iraq war is history.
A powerful argument against impetuous decisions, be they to join the military or to attack a country.
Body of War is a powerful and effective documentary because it keeps its focus very tight and makes its story vivid in personal terms.
Body of War makes no bones about its activism. Then again, like the others, it's the willingness to contextualize events and apply reason to them that makes it and others so valuable.
Top CriticIt is not merely an antiwar document, but a complex profile in courage of a paraplegic and patriot.
Top CriticIt's an unusually intimate portrait.
"You go to a parade, you got to a demo," says Bobby Muller, "Standard routine: you put the gimps on the front. You gotta have the visual."
...more than just another run-of-the-mill political documentary.
No one can fail to be moved and saddened by 'Body of War' and its picture behind the doors that hide forgotten ignored heroes.
Body of War is a gut-wrenching documentary experience.
A searing documentary that reveals the courageous antiwar heroism of a Iraq war veteran who is paralyzed from the waist down.
Body of War again demonstrates that we Americans still have some bitter truths to face.
Architecturally sound, emotionally ravaging.
Top CriticA tough, affecting documentary about an American soldier in the Iraq war.
Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro's powerful documentary takes a microcosmic look at the war and its devastation by focusing on a single casualty.
Makes for a good anti-war doc, to be sure, but an even finer -- and painfully accurate -- portrait of the former soldier as a young man.
The lack of ego and relatively little self-pity [wheelchair-bound Tomas] Young has is astounding.
Whatever you think of the film, Body of War stirs up real admiration for its subject.
Top CriticWhat makes Body Of War such a powerful documentary isn't the clever rhetorical device of debate vs. reality, but the way it documents American life in the '00s.
Equal parts sadness and inspiration, fury and compassion, the film is sure to divide audiences along ideological lines. But there’s no denying the reality of Tomas Young’s experiences. A man who has paid so much is more than entitled to his opinions.
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