
A soldier enlists just before the 9/11. He is not a brave man--simply volunteering to defend freedom. Arriving in Iraq in 2003, just after the occupation of Bagdad, with a few soldiers of his infantry platoon, he is sent to provide water to a village whose infrastructure was destroyed. Simple things however, such as water transportation, water distribution and the reconstruction of the plumbing became a challenge in war environment.... (Full plot summary below)
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A soldier enlists just before the 9/11. He is not a brave man--simply volunteering to defend freedom. Arriving in Iraq in 2003, just after the occupation of Bagdad, with a few soldiers of his infantry platoon, he is sent to provide water to a village whose infrastructure was destroyed. Simple things however, such as water transportation, water distribution and the reconstruction of the plumbing became a challenge in war environment.
Leave your thoughts about Sand Castle.
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfGut-rot emotions are plentiful and powerful, but "Sand Castle" is best with the details of the day, grasping the nightmare of control that is Iraq, which inspires true fear in those tasked with implementing change. |
| AV ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyIt’s a stale, phony, grunt-level sort of view of American intervention, cast in large part with Brits and shot in the familiar desert backlots of Jordan, which has stood in for the site of one Middle Eastern conflict after another since "Lawrence Of Arabia." |
| IGN MoviesJosh LasserSand Castle is a movie full of tension and fear and which makes sure the audience is right there with the soldiers throughout. |
| The Film StageJared MobarakRoessner hasn’t written an anti-war or pro-war film. Sand Castle merely shows the honesty of war’s infinite complexities. |
| Empire MagazineJohn NugentSand Castle does a respectable job of depicting a wretched conflict that none of its participants wanted, but its reason for being feels a little built on sand. |
| Common Sense MediaRenee SchonfeldHumanistic look at Iraq war; violent battles, cursing. |
| Film Freak CentralAlice StoehrStrip away everything tedious or generic, everything that merely advances the plot, and this would just be a movie about men's bodies. |
| We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoSand Castle is an Iraq war story about certain futility, but there's a certain redundancy to political overtones that preach what we've been hearing all along. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreA combat movie that’s as generic as they come. |
| Punch Drunk CriticsTravis HopsonIt's not a bad war movie, just one you've seen a thousand times before. |