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A.O. Scott
The New York Times
Gives a remarkably thorough and detailed account of the difficult conditions facing American soldiers in Iraq. Full Review
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
If Full Battle Rattle begins as surreal, almost goofball farce, with a bunch of beefy guys playing a fancy-dress version of laser tag in the desert -- aided by a bunch of rented Iraqis who'd rather be watching TV in suburbia -- it ends on an ambiguous and haunting note, much closer to tragedy. Full Review
David Edelstein
New York Magazine
The film is freaky, amusing, and sickening in equal measures-part fly-on-the-wall vrit, part multiple-perspective Altmanesque tragicomedy. Full Review
Eddie Cockrell
Variety
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. Full Review
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
Set off by sprightly graphics and shimmering with over-bright colors, Full Battle Rattle has a fake transparency. The movie arouses, without gratifying, a desire to see the camera. Full Review
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