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Full Battle Rattle
Directed by
Jesse Moss
2008
85m
Not Rated
Documentary
6.5
77%
84%
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A film about life inside the US Army's Iraq simulation in California's Mojave Desert.
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Full Battle Rattle Reviews
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Just when I thought I had heard everything about the war in Iraq, along comes Full Battle Rattle.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
This documentary gives a remarkably thorough and detailed account of the difficult conditions facing American soldiers in Iraq.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
A keenly insightful film concerning an unusual training program for war-bound U.S. soldiers.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Full Battle Rattle works just fine as a two-fisted combat story, with unexpected bursts of violence peppering that old universal message that war is hell. But the added layer of pretense pushes the movie to another level.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
It is an enlightening lesson in modern warfare.
Film Threat
Matthew Sorrento
Keeping the style objective and routine, [co-directors Tony] Gerber and [Jesse] Moss remain non-judgmental of the bizarre carnival they have uncovered.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Full Battle Rattle often seems content to merely work its way toward the concluding notion that, if our armed forces can't cut it in fake Iraq, they'll never be able to handle the real deal.
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
If you thought Disneyland was fun, take a trip to this complete simulated Iraqi village in California, and learn how the other half live. And die.
Variety
Eddie Cockrell
A so-so pic on an incendiary subject.
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
A docu about modern war games in the California desert contains little insight into the Iraq War.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
One of the many surreal aspects of this fabulously disorienting movie: its representation of an Iraqi heaven that's an American hell.
New York Press
Eric Kohn
The movie fails to become a document of our time and settles for the dopey synthetic version instead.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
The film is freaky, amusing, and sickening in equal measures -- part fly-on-the-wall vérité, part multiple-perspective Altmanesque tragicomedy.
Paste Magazine
Sean Gandert
this is such small stakes compared to the real war that the film can't help but feel equally unimportant.
Cinematical
Christopher Campbell
On one level, Full Battle Rattle is enjoyable for the theatrics ... On a second level ... is appreciable for what it says about the U.S. military's involvement in Iraq.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
This increasingly complicated scenario isn't scripted, peace is far from guaranteed and the line between reality and its incredible simulation has a funny way of getting blurry.
Film Journal International
Eric Monder
Educational and enlightening.
Boxoffice Magazine
John P. McCarthy
While you may wish the filmmakers had included fewer scenic shots of the sun setting over Californiaâ(TM)s high desert and instead played devil's advocate more often, the impact of Full Battle Rattle stems from its political and ideological neutrality.
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
In Full Battle Rattle, the Iraq Simulation and the war are both real and not real, confusing, painful, and horrific, for the refugees working as role players.
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