Full Battle Rattle

Full Battle Rattle (2007)

  • 73% of critics liked it
    (30 reviews)

  • 77% of users liked it
    (228 ratings)

Before American soldiers are deployed to Iraq, they're given special training at the National Training Center on the Ft. Irwin Military Reservation, located in California's Mojave Desert. The National Training Center has constructed a simulated Iraqi village called Medina Wasl in the desert, where… More

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Unrated, 1 hr. 32 min.
Directed By
Jesse Moss, Tony Gerber
Genres
Documentary, Special Interest
In Theaters
Feb 9, 2008 Wide
On DVD
Sep 22, 2009

Critic Reviews

  • Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter

    A docu about modern war games in the California desert contains little insight into the Iraq War.

  • Eddie Cockrell, Variety

    A so-so pic on an incendiary subject.

  • J. Hoberman, Village Voice

    One of the many surreal aspects of this fabulously disorienting movie: its representation of an Iraqi heaven that's an American hell.

  • V.A. Musetto, New York Post

    Just when I thought I had heard everything about the war in Iraq, along comes Full Battle Rattle.

  • A.O. Scott, New York Times

    This documentary gives a remarkably thorough and detailed account of the difficult conditions facing American soldiers in Iraq.

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