Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. Brandon tries to resume the life he left behind with the help and support of...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 8, 2008
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September 28, 2009I am not really into war movies. However, Stop-Loss kept me watching to the bitter end. It deals with the inhumanity of war, of soldiers trying to fit back into civilian life, and with the American government's Stop-loss program - a program to keep soldiers in the war beyond eve...( read more)
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August 11, 2009It's an enlightening film but doesn't really express it's ideas in the most eloquent of ways. When a character yells out "Fuck the President!" Subtlety slides out the back door without making a sound. Levitt and Tatum give great performances and Phillipe is a strong anchor. His c...( read more)
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July 16, 2009An intense and hard-hitting movie. It's thrilling, riveting and moving. It hits all the right notes with the characters and their emotions. Ryan Phillippe is electrifying. Channing Tatum is riveting. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is teriffic.
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June 29, 2009I thought this was very good. Lots of well-known actors, and it was a different take on the usual war movies.
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May 28, 2009Good movie for what its worth but extremely flawed and a waste of talent. The actors here show that they can act in this film but they don't get the chance to show their all because they're not pushed enuff.
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November 22, 2009I thought the first 20 minutes of this was pretty ordinary, but it really picked up thanks to some good performances. I'd never heard of 'stop-loss' before this film, and after seeing it all I can say is that US soldiers are pretty hard done by.
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November 12, 2009An interesting story from soldiers' point of views. Touches the lives of U.S. soldiers return home from fighting in Iraq. Usually upon returning from a war, these guys are really messed up. Post traumatic stress were common. No armed structured discipline, the boys gets restless....( read more)
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November 3, 2009Kimberly Peirce's "Stop-Loss" is a bit of a disappointment coming 9 years after the director's brilliant debut feature, "Boys Don't Cry." That was a relevant, effective and poignant story of tolerance (or lack thereof) in America's heartland. This new film is a tale of military a...( read more)
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November 3, 2009I had no idea this sort of b.s. is taking place. Damn the gov't! This film ripped my heart out! Our soldiers are NOT treated fairly! I am so glad that I finally watched this movie..it opened my eyes even more about our frigin b.s. gov't!! Errrrrrrrr!
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Critic Reviews
March 31, 2008
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
March 28, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Stop-Loss can't quite decide whether to focus on making a powerful statement on a controversial and unfamiliar military policy or on a more predictable drama about the traumatic effect of war on young... full review
March 28, 2008
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Though it's no Boys Don't Cry, there's something about Stop-Loss that haunts you: Peirce has an uncanny way of catching the fierce light in her actors' eyes. full review
March 28, 2008
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Clearly, Peirce's motives are pure. She's not using the 'stop-loss' issue as a wedge to make the government or the administration look bad. She's using it to dramatize an injustice and to advocate on ... full review
March 28, 2008
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
The story steers away from clichés and political polemics, maintaining a tone of unflinching emotional realism. full review
March 28, 2008
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
It's more a sweaty assemblage of dramatic high-points than a coherent, persuasive story of wounded warriors trying to make it. full review
March 28, 2008
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Stop-Loss tries to be about so many things that it addresses none of them adequately. full review
March 27, 2008
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
In some ways, there is a grim, accidental timeliness in the release of Stop-Loss, which focuses on the ordeal of American soldiers in and out of combat. full review
March 26, 2008
Armond White, The New York Press
Being better than In the Valley of Elah's lazy view of returning vets as damaged and mentally depraved isn't good enough. full review
March 20, 2008
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Even when the script slips into sentiment, [director] Peirce sticks with her troubled, questing soldiers, and through this raw and riveting movie, they stick with us. full review
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September 3, 2008Like the comment below if anyone knows the name of the rap song that plays during the documentary filming/montages at the beginning of the movie I would love to know! either post it on here or send me a message. thanks!
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June 15, 2008although this is a long shot, i was wondering if anyone knows the title of the first 'rap/ hip hop' song that was playing at the very begining...i keep tryin to look up the soundtrack for it, but thats not working for me...
if anyone knows by chance, please write it on MY WALL
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April 8, 2008chick just showed the problem of the movie it's propaganda for the uninformed, those who don't know what's going on take the word of more negative propaganda, I have heard soldiers don't like this movie either, or at least a couple I talked to on Yahoo. This is just more of Hollywood trying to bias people on what to think and using their popularity to force political opinons on people.
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April 1, 2008I really liked this movie but it made me realize that those troops have no reason to be in Iraq and this war just needs to be over.
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March 27, 2008Dont need to watch it cause I already live it. Been stop lossed for 20 months now lol
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March 23, 2008More liberal mega-crap, it will bomb like all the other anti-american crap movies that hollywood keeps trying to make about iraq and then fade into forgetful oblivion. O man I just realized this is the same director that made that other propoganda gay rights movie, she must be straight from the Michael Moore school of PROPOGANDA U.
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