Everyone in the world had heard of Jessica Lynch in 2003 . You remember don't you ? All American girl who joined the army . got sent to Iraq and got captured by the Iraqi at the battle of Nasiriyah and a week later got rescued in a daring mission by US special forces and then the Pentagon went in to overdrive stating she killed lots of Iraqis and was cruelly treated . Truth is the first casualty of war and the unfortunate thing was the legend of Jessica Lynch was a legend created by the Pentagon and media departments of the US military probably by the same people who stated Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and that's why he needed to be overthrown and in a strange way Jessica Lynch became a casualty of war twice over I first saw a clip of this TVM when the arguments of what really happened at the battle of Nasiriyah was in full flow . The thing that struck me was some very impressive and bloody battle sequences you wouldn't expect from a TVM which instantly reminded me of the ones seen in BLACK HAWK DOWN . In fact it's fair to say that director Peter Markle heavily inspired by Ridley Scott's film and that shouldn't be taken as a criticism . Also be fair to does portray Lynch being unconscious for some of the battle , not like having her gun down countless numbers of Iraqis till she ran out of ammo That said Hollywood likes to print the legend and in order to make a story more compelling embellishment and artistic licence is needed . After all spending a week in a hospital bed in a semi conscious state , even in Iraq doesn't lend itself to compelling drama . That said this TVM could have been worse . Imagine we had Hollywood running the American military and the Pentagon running film studios . It doesn't bare thinking about

Very good movie, especially because it is first movie about Iraqi war, filmed only 6 month after war ends. Despite poor critics, 'true story' debates, even PFC Lynch's rescue detail challenges, hey, it is another American action movie. Lot of army stuff, glimpse in the Iraqi soldiers life, which reminds me like overrated 'Black Hawk Down'. This movie is BASED on true story, so any director adjusts story to movie as much as he want (especialy American directors). By the way, even Richard Attenborough's Chaplin (great movie) have same true story mismatching, so what? Movies are movies, if you want true story details, read biographies!

Hard to see what Jessica Lynch did to become a hero from this movie. She spent most of the film in a hospital bed.The battle scene in which she was captured showed her knocked out in an accident while her fellow soldiers battled against overwhelming Iraqi forces. It would be nice to see a movie about those folks and not about a woman who was asleep the whole time.

The real story of the Jessica Lynch affair is how the Pentagon lied to the country trying to depict miss Lynch as a hero, fighting off the enemy, when in actual fact all she suffered was getting injured and caught by the enemy. It was strange that CBS chose today to air (60 mins) the real story of what happened on that day and by the looks of it Jessica did not do much , contrary to the usual lying spin we get from our leaders today. The film, although technically well done is about nothing, with no conflict no interest and a who f*%&+#@ cares outcome. It is about nothing and the only reason why this story surfaced is because of the lie perpetrated by those who would blind us about the horrible immoral and unworthy war we are sending our children to.