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- A U.S. Army officer, despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander's worthiness for the Medal of Honor.
- This film is a series of flashbacks in which Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Serling attempts to determine whether Captain Karen Walden deserves to be the first woman ever to win the Medal of Honor for combat.
- Do you ever watch those movies that just elicit no reaction from you? I'm talking about the kind of movies that are just so straightforward and so flat that they draw out zero emotions in you and your opinion of the movie elevates to nothing above indifference. For me, this was the case with Courage Under Fire. It stars Denzel Washington as Col. Nat Serling, an army colonel investigating the legitimacy of a post humous Medal of Honor award going to Karen Warden, an army officer who was said to have died heroically while fighting the Iraqis during the Gulf War. However, there are too many discrepancies so Serling is enlisted to find out the truth about what happened to Warden the day her and her platoon went down in their chopper. The film is told through flashbacks which recount the events from different points of views. It's a Rashomon type of story in the way that the events are slightly altered depending on who is recounting them. It's a clever plot device, but not clever or interesting enough to make Courage Under Fire a great film.<br/><br/>Don't get me wrong, it's decent. The story isn't something you will see every day and I have to give props to any film that utilizes a more unique narrative style. Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon started this style of the unreliable narrator in film, and it's films like Courage Under Fire that keep the style alive. The problem is that the film doesn't do anything particularly interesting with this narrative style. It plays out how you would expect it to and the actual structure of the film is pretty redundant as well. From start to finish it is essentially Denzel Washington going from place to place, interviewing people about the events that ended Warden's life until he finally gets the truth. There's no real feeling in this film and it lacks any kind of atmosphere or visual nuance. The story presented is engaging to an extent, but there's nothing else to really grab your attention.<br/><br/>The bottom line behind Courage Under Fire is it is just a forgettable film. Nothing exists within this film that makes me want to tell people about it, or think about it down the line, or rewatch it ever again. It does things right and it isn't by any means a disaster, but due to its lack of feeling, dull atmosphere, and monotonous plot it just isn't what I would call a fantastic film.
- Medals of Honor usually are not bestowed upon war criminals.<br/><br/>Captain Walden initiated a machine gun- and incendiary bomb-attack on an Iraqi tank and ground forces. She did this while prominently displaying one of the two symbols of The International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. In so doing, she committed a crime.<br/><br/>Further, why was she nominated for The Medal? What did she do to display "Conspicuous gallantry and intrepedity at risk of life, above and beyond the call of duty . . . ?" Why not a Distinguished Flying Cross or, maybe, a Silver Star -- or both?<br/><br/>Contrast Walden's exploits with those of Corporal Gump. Forrest Gump was aware that a napalm attack had been ordered on the position. Risking instant incineration, he repeatedly eschewed safety and went back to rescue his comrades, one after another. That is the kind of gallantry the Medal of Honor is all about.<br/><br/>The premise of Courage Under Fire is flawed.
- While the account of Walden's heroics doesn't necessarily move from legend to fact, it does push the bounds of truth and raise interesting questions about the function of truth for the survivors of war.
- The image used in this article is the DVD cover from the UK release (which is also indicated by the "15" in the lower right corner). This is not a deliberate misspelling or disrespect toward American military by the movie studio, but a special design meant for the UK market. a5c7b9f00b
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