Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Synopsis: Jesus, a Mexican citizen who is desperate for U.S. citizenship, is the driving force behind this political drama. He opts to join the American military and fight in Iraq in exchange for a green card, but when he returns to the U.S. from the war zone he experiences post-traumatic stress syndrome... [More]
Genre: Dramas
G.I. JESÚS isn't perfect but in its modest manner it is an ambitious and intriguing film. It is packed with topics ranging from immigration to the deployment of potentially ill men and women to the lack of proper care for veterans to the haunting effects
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Writer-director Carl Colpaert brushes past the most interesting aspect of his own film.
[Director] Colpaert makes nice use of blue and green hues, and he makes some valid points about the Iraqi war. But the script lacks coherence and ends with a 180-degree flip that lessens the impact of what has gone before.
G. I. Jesus may be a mixed bag, but it is so impressive in so many ways that it demands to be taken seriously.
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Everything that GI Jesus wants to talk about is worth discussing [but] sadly the third act hits the movie like a torpedo, sending it slowly sinking into failure.
An ambitious set of scrappy performances combined with a screenplay that threatens to fragment from shear edginess. Succeeds only due to the pure sincerity of the cast.
At times beautifully captures the fear and paranoia that accompany soldiers home from war but that too often gets muddled in the morass of Jesus' internal wanderings.
Defiant anti-war metaphorical amalgam of US military martyrdom and boy toy gladiator servitude.
For such a gritty indie film, it's galling that [Arquette] and his family are so handsomely photogenic in a generic Hollywood way. Where's the rebellious truth in that?
Like other underfunded indies ... G.I. Jesús plays more like a telenovela than a feature film.
The choices made by the characters are sure to infuriate some, but at least they add to the discussion.
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An hour into things, G.I. Jesus takes a dramatic left turn, extending a middle finger to materialism and extolling the virtues of cheap beer and good Mexican food over the killing of innocents. It's a message that cuts across borders and politics.
The scattershot approach may not be masterful, but it does land some glancing blows.
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... Colpaert has so vividly seized the contemporary moment, and explored it with his own eyes and conscience.
This unruly hodgepodge of actual combat footage and Manchurian Candidate-style surrealism is a bold, often clumsy, but always intriguing piece of work.
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