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  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary Full Battle Rattle is the story of a real war and a fake town. In California’s Mojave Desert, the US Army has built a “virtual Iraq”—a billion dollar urban warfare simulation--and populated it with hundreds of Iraqi role-players. Army units spend three weeks inside the simulation before deploying to Iraq. Blurring the boundary between f...

Directed By: Tony Gerber, Jesse Moss

  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 25 m

Full Battle Rattle

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary Full Battle Rattle is the story of a real war and a fake town. In California’s Mojave Desert, the US Army has built a “virtual Iraq”—a billion dollar urban warfare simulation--and populated it with hundreds of Iraqi role-players. Army units spend three weeks inside the simulation before deploying to Iraq. Blurring the boundary between f...

Directed By: Tony Gerber, Jesse Moss

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
72
67% Positive
6 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
72
67% Positive
6 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
The title, by the way, is age-old slang for a soldier's complete combat gear, which for the U.S. soldiers in Iraq -- both real and otherwise -- weighs over 50 pounds.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
91
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.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
80
Gives a remarkably thorough and detailed account of the difficult conditions facing American soldiers in Iraq.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
75
It is up to each viewer to decide if the Mojave project is a stroke of genius or a very expensive boondoggle.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
70
The film is freaky, amusing, and sickening in equal measures—part fly-on-the-wall vérité, part multiple-perspective Altmanesque tragicomedy.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
50
A so-so pic on an incendiary subject, Full Battle Rattle follows the training regimen of one battalion during engagement and occupation in one of 13 fake "villages" comprising a massive Iraq simulation somewhere in the Mojave Desert.
By Eddie Cockrell FULL REVIEW
50
It's all a bit bizarre. One soldier tellingly calls it "one big reality TV show," and the movie never makes clear whether such training does any good.
By Kirk Honeycutt FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Market Road Films, Mile End Films, Pop's Paper Route, Tashtego Films
Release Date Jul 9, 2008
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.fullbattlerattlemovie.com/
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Awards

SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 1 Nomination
Warsaw International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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