Fighting for Life puts courageous faces on men and women who might otherwise be anonymous statistics at a time when injured soldiers are rarely seen on TV.
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03/21/08
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Fighting for Life (2008)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:6
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.3/10
Theatrical Release:Mar 7, 2008 Wide
Synopsis: Fighting for Life is a powerful, sobering and emotional feature documentary portrait of American military medicine interweaving three stories: * Military doctors, nurses and medics, working... [More]
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Top CriticThough in surer hands, the class's simulated mass-casualty situation, replete with ghoulish prosthetic wounds, might've been a masterpiece.
03/19/08
Top Criticwill prove deeply moving to audience members of any political persuasion.
03/18/08
Top CriticFighting for Life is essential viewing at a time when, five years on, the war's human cost is still too often mired in partisan rhetoric and administration spin.
03/13/08
Top CriticShot in battlefield hospitals in Iraq and rehab centers in the United States, Fighting for Life takes an unflinching look at the physical sacrifices of soldiers and marines.
03/07/08
Top CriticSince there's no through narrative, no characters being followed, it's TV newsmagazine material.
03/07/08
Top CriticThere is no question that [direcotr Terry] Sanders has discovered a worthy subject. He just hasn't found the right way to approach it.
03/07/08
Top CriticFighting for Life is briskly paced, and there's often a palpable, appropriate sense of disorientation parlayed through the roaming p.o.v.
03/06/08
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