
Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's year dug in with the Second Platoon in one of Afghanistan's most strategically crucial valleys reveals extraordinary insight into the surreal combination of back breaking labor, deadly firefights, and camaraderie as the soldiers painfully push back the Taliban.... (Full plot summary below)
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Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's year dug in with the Second Platoon in one of Afghanistan's most strategically crucial valleys reveals extraordinary insight into the surreal combination of back breaking labor, deadly firefights, and camaraderie as the soldiers painfully push back the Taliban.
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| Wisconsin State JournalRob ThomasThe footage Junger and Hetherington got is an incredible, boots-on-the-ground, soldier's-eye view of combat. |
| New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottA film that is beautiful, harrowing, heartbreaking -- and necessary. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThis movie will stir your heart and open your mind. It's a group portrait of practicing patriots. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThere is the sense they're fighting for each other more than for ideology. |
| Movie MetropolisJames PlathRestrepo comes closest of any film I've seen to fully suggesting what being a soldier is like. |
| Orlando SentinelRoger MooreAt this point in all our Middle Eastern conflicts, we need more from a documentary than just a grunts-eye-view of the frustrating nature of the war. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)The past few years have brought a lot of war documentaries, but Restrepo is the rare one that adds something new. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDonald J. LevitThis real-action vérité is as tense as the beachhead sequence of 'Saving Private Ryan' and all the more emotional in that these are not actors in recreation. |
| About.comJennifer MerinBy standing beside their subjects under fire, the filmmakers bring you to your own jarring encounter with the stress, adrenalin and shock of combat. Should be mandatory viewing for every American. |
| Sly FoxKam Williamsmakes it clear that the prospect of being outnumbered 10-to-1 can turn any kid with a sense of self-preservation into a fine-tuned killing machine. |