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10/18/08
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Fighting for Life (2008)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:17
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.2/10
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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If you’re wondering where the heroes went, take a look at this group, and see if you’re not impressed.
10/18/08
Specialist Crystal Davis' story reflects many stories, her life changed forever, her efforts to meet all kinds of unanticipated challenges.
04/09/08
The no-frills yet deeply gripping manner this film uses to document this brave soldier's struggle for survival, then in rehab, should draw a salute from military personnel and civilians as well.
04/07/08
Sanders provides a rare glimpse into the world of the doctors and nurses tasked with saving lives in difficult circumstances. You cannot leave Fighting for Life without a deep sense of respect for the medical personnel and the patients.
03/28/08
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.
03/21/08
Top CriticThe graphic imagery drives home the toll that war takes without the need for sermonizing.
03/20/08
Though 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 CriticThough Maryland's Uniformed Services University has been dubbed "Useless U" and has come close to being shuttered, Terry Sanders' simply shot digital film is an inelegant but potent argument for its existence.
03/13/08
Fighting 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 CriticSanders and his crew are expert at building scenes from whatever shots they could grab, under extremely demanding circumstances.
03/07/08
The result isn’t pro-war, just pro cleaning up the mess, one amputee at a time.
03/07/08
Since 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 CriticThough it superficially deals with how military doctors work during a long and unpopular war, Terry Sanders's film more closely disentangles a specialized establishment in its own right.
03/07/08
A salute to the courageous and caring work done by military doctors and nurses in Iraq, Germany, and the United States.
03/06/08
Fighting 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
Top CriticBravo to Fighting For Life for presenting the real, unvarnished story of the heroes of the military medical corps without politics or judgments and simply allowing to us to be truly inspired
03/01/08
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