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The pilot of a rescue copter, Captain Karen Walden, died shortly before her helicopter crew was rescued after it crashed in Desert Storm. It first appears that she made a spectacular rescue of a downed helicopter crew, then held her own crew together to fight off the Iraqis after her copter crashed. Lt. Colonel Serling, who is struggling with his own demons from Desert Storm, is assigned to investigate her worthiness for the Medal of Honor. But some conflicting accounts, from her crew and soldiers in the area, cause him to question whether she deserves it.
Two fictional combat stories come together in this film set during the Gulf War (Aug. 1990-Feb. 1991) and afterwards. LCol Nat Serling is haunted by a mistake he made that cost the lives of a friend and his tank crew. He investigates the recommended Medal of Honor for Capt. Karen Walden, who was killed after her rescue helicopter was shot down. Conflicting reports lead him to probe deeper to uncover the truth about Walden and all of her crew, who survived. In the process, he comes to grips with his own demons.
The story is a simple one. Washington is a Lt. Colonel responsible for some accidental deaths during a tank battle in the Gulf War. The experience leaves him feeling pretty lousy. He neglects his family and begins drinking. He's assigned to investigate the suitability of Meg Ryan as a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor. She was flying a medevac helicopter to a crash site when her aircraft was shot down by small arms fire and, apparently, she stayed behind voluntarily and ordered her crew to save themselves while she covered them. Washington interviews the crew members and gets different stories. In one story Ryan behaves heroically as described. In a second, she is a coward and collapses under fire. In yet a third, the truth emerges. Yeah, it's Rashomon, but not as original or subtle.
Still it's pretty good. And, Gott sei dank, it is not a story in which a woman proves herself as a good as a man, despite the fact that she is a member of the weaker sex. (What condescension.) Meg Ryan is a capable and courageous officer who happens to be a woman. Her sex is important to the politicians who are positively drooling over the prospect of awarding her the decoration, but isn't really important to the narrative.
The performances are better than I'd expected. Everyone, in fact, is quite good in their different ways. Matt Damon, in particular, gives a sensitive performance as a guilt-ridden medic, and looks the part, somewhat ascetic, his facial features askew with uncertainty. Meg Ryan doesn't have a chance to do more than shout orders with a Texas accent but she registers pain and determination well. Lou Diamond Phillips is perhaps the least articulated character, but that may be the fault of the role as written, which is fairly complex but a little obvious. Denzel Washington is the central figure. He's good as carrying that burden of guilt left over from his battlefield mistake but isn't too convincing as a drunk. In the end, he relieves himself of some of that torture by visiting the parents of one of the men he had killed and confessing his part in the incident. The first few times I saw this I kept thinking what some other actors would have done with this scene, but the last time I found his incarnate remorse rather moving.
There is one scene delicately shot, an uneasy exchange between the lying Damon and the perceptive Washington that's beautifully staged and acted, and another memorable first encounter between Washington and Phillips, in which both actors probe the edges of insubordination. Michael Dolan stands out in a featured bit part as a hospital orderly.
The battle scenes are well done, although a little confusing, as I'm sure they would have been at the time. Some generic conventions are adhered to. Four of our guys can slaughter dozens of them. The enemy runs headlong into a hail of bullets. But there are some interesting twists given to the situation. The Iraqis on the other side of the hill can be heard laughing at our boys (and our woman). And the ending is revisionist, but I won't go into it. Justice outs, let's say that.
It's a worthwhile watch for any number of reasons. Craftsmanlike if not poetic.
I tuned in hopefully despite the language warning, normally being enthusiasts of both stars, Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan. The story sounded intriguing, a Colonel who makes a deadly friendly fire error of his own during Desert Storm, and is later called upon to determine the worthiness of a female helicopter pilot to be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honour. Her surviving troops each give a different depiction of the relevant combat events.
However, be forewarned. Take the R language rating very seriously here. The movie seems attempting to set a record for use of the f-word and anti religion profanity, both alone and in sacrilegious combination. For those not comfortable with such language, this movie is not for you. The female chopper pilot, Captain Walden, may or may not prove as combat worthy as the boys, but she certainly proves that she's as foul mouthed. Presumably language used during tense combat situations isn't the best. However, isn't it amazing all the great war movies from bygone years that managed just fine without this sort of dialogue? By the way, the objectionable language is EVERYWHERE, not only during the battle sequences. Writing the screenplay wouldn't have involved much talent or ingenuity, and I note at least one other viewer also unimpressed with the excessive crude language.
Neither did I appreciate the Colonel's comment after praying prior to leading his troops into combat, "Now let's kill 'em all". Exactly what is the point here, other than to degrade faith? Another favourite Hollywood pastime.
Personally, I didn't find Colonel Serling's situation as sympathetic as I might have imagined, given his troubled conscience about being coerced into covering up the truth about this friendly fire incident. His cold attitude toward his wife turned me off instead of eliciting compassion from me for his moral anguish. Furthermore, in keeping with the overall language, the Colonel himself seems quite proud of his own personal comfort with the f-word.
I found the movie surprisingly just plain boring with the the main characters failing to engage my interest. Pity it hadn't been better done, with such potentially powerful themes of courage and honour in what might have been a captivating Gulf War story. I must say Denzel Washington went down a notch or two in my esteem. As for Meg Ryan, she should have stuck with her usual genre, the romantic comedy. She doesn't seem at all well cast here in her role as the chopper commander barking orders.
The end of the film understandably lays on the emotion a little heavily, but until then Courage Under Fire has been a fascinating emotional and logistical puzzle--almost a courtroom movie, with the desert as the courtroom.
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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