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  • 2007
  • R
  • Arcangelo Entertainment
  • 2 h 45 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Arcangelo Entertainment
  • 2 h 45 m
Badland

Summary 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 commi...

Directed By: Francesco Lucente

Written By: Francesco Lucente

  • 2007
  • R
  • Arcangelo Entertainment
  • 2 h 45 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Arcangelo Entertainment
  • 2 h 45 m

Badland

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
30
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary 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 commi...

Directed By: Francesco Lucente

Written By: Francesco Lucente

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
30
22% Positive
2 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
56% Negative
5 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
30
22% Positive
2 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
56% Negative
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70
It unflinchingly illuminates the toll exacted by the Iraq War in a raw, deeply personal and completely compelling manner.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
63
Says many things at once without much perspective or clarity.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
40
A strenuously solemn film that wants to create some kind of American pastoral tragedy out of the nation's current angst with the war.
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW
38
Possibly the worst idea for a movie this century.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
30
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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12
The year's dullest movie has arrived: the deeply silly Badland, which is as dead as winter and twice as long.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
10
Overlong, over-the-top dirge.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 User Ratings
3.7
29% Positive
2 Ratings
14% Mixed
1 Rating
57% Negative
4 Ratings

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User Score
Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 User Ratings
3.7
29% Positive
2 Ratings
14% Mixed
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57% Negative
4 Ratings

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Production Company Badland Corporation, Ruby Max Entertainment
Release Date Nov 30, 2007
Duration 2 h 45 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. Sinclair Lewis
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Awards

Milano International Film Festival Awards (MIFF Awards)
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
ECU European Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Lake Arrowhead Film Festival, US
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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