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Critics Consensus: The Yellow Birds has a strong cast and a worthy message, but they're both lost in this war drama's rote, clichéd story.
Critic Consensus: The Yellow Birds has a strong cast and a worthy message, but they're both lost in this war drama's rote, clichéd story.
All Critics (39) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (22)
As "war is hell" movies go, this one is better than usual.
A rather dispiriting slog of a movie.
"The Yellow Birds" is a difficult film that hammers home its point that war is a living hell that extends far beyond the battlefield.
Making a late appearance in the Iraq War movie cycle, the impressively acted "The Yellow Birds" manages to leave an affecting mark even as it constantly struggles to find a distinctive voice of its own.
Watch it once, and you could come away a little underwhelmed; watch it twice, and you begin to suspect that its almost humdrum rhythms are exactly the point.
It's not only that The Yellow Birds doesn't have anything new to say, but that it's playing movie karaoke with other, better war movies.
Although the cinematography is beautiful and the film has a lot of potential, it's far too slowly paced and doesn't have enough depth for the heavy material it takes on.
The Yellow Birds doesn't say much of anything outside of the mundane. The trio of young men at its center are compelling enough, but the entire ordeal feels like a mash-up of countless other movies.
Talent on both sides of the camera can't quite pull together this cerebral, introspective examination of the psychological trauma of military combat.
War is hell and we know that, but The Yellow Birds wants to show how war lingers. That gives The Yellow Birds an emotional edge.
The Yellow Birds does make the most of a murky river or a smoldering battleground, but there is little depth behind its reliable imagery.
It's received a fair amount of negative response for its allegiance to the cinematic canon, but The Yellow Birds is more than the sum of other films' parts and makes for a worthwhile adventure.
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