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Badland
Badland Corporation

Badland reviews
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Metascore: 30 Metascore out of 100
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MPAA RATING: R for some strong disturbing violence and pervasive language

Starring Jamie Draven, Grace Fulton, Vinessa Shaw, Joe Morton, and Chandra West

Jerry is a Marine reservist who was a young patriot and idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he is called up for deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq, Jerry is a father of three; older and embittered by a life besieged by broken promises, and unfulfilled desires. Jerry returns a changed man, transformed by horrors committed that go beyond comprehension and sanity, pain inflicted that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of his unexplained outbursts of rage, his wife, Nora, unsympathetic to the nosebleeds and night terrors he suffers. She hides money her sons earn from their paper route in case they need to leave. Their crowded trailer home becomes a prison. His failure as a man, his actions as a soldier, is the punishment which they share. He realizes that the respect and dignity he has spent his life trying to achieve will always elude him. When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he has experienced in combat could have prepared him for. (Badland Corporation)


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Francesco Lucente  
DIRECTED BY: Francesco Lucente  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: February 24, 2009 
Theatrical: November 30, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 160 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

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70
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
It unflinchingly illuminates the toll exacted by the Iraq War in a raw, deeply personal and completely compelling manner.
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63
TV Guide Ken Fox
Says many things at once without much perspective or clarity.
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50
The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz
This overlong, mawkish yet weirdly mesmerizing film doesn’t just invite identification with its tragically unhinged character; it compels it, by piling on biblically horrible misfortunes, weepy confessions and editorializing music.
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40
Variety Robert Koehler
A strenuously solemn film that wants to create some kind of American pastoral tragedy out of the nation's current angst with the war.
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38
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Possibly the worst idea for a movie this century.
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30
Village Voice Aaron Hillis
Writer-director Francesco Lucente's overconfident, emotionally forced 160-minute opus offers trite antiwar platitudes--at best--in chronicling the anguished existence of a soldier who can't shake the horrors he experienced in Fallujah.
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20
Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Badland's only commercial potential lies in the possibility that people may confuse it for Terrence Malick's incomparable "Badlands."
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12
New York Post Kyle Smith
The year's dullest movie has arrived: the deeply silly Badland, which is as dead as winter and twice as long.
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10
The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Overlong, over-the-top dirge.
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