johnny-burgundy
Courage Under Fire (1996) This is a war film about an Army officer, plagued about a deadly mistake he made, who investigates a female soldier's worthiness for the Medal of Honor. It stars Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan. The film received mostly positive reviews and earned a generally favorable response. The investigation turns up some disparities that requires our lead character to not only question the female soldier's worthiness, but also his own. It examines the truth the public gets vs. the actual truth. This is a quality film that allows its audience, not only to figure out what really took place, but also whether or not it should come out at all.
gavin6942
A United States Army officer (Denzel Washington), despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander (Meg Ryan)'s worthiness for the Medal of Honor.Let's talk about casting for a moment. Bronson Pinchot is an interesting casting choice, though his role is small enough that it really does not matter. Michael Moriarty is interesting, too, if for no other reason than his strong conservative beliefs. How a conservative and a liberal view this movie could be very different...Lastly, Lou Diamond Phillips is incredible. He is probably most associated with "La Bamba", but that is probably selling him short. Here he has a great emotional range, and when he comes into the story, everything gets kicked up a notch.
eban1981
For people who just want to see Meg in the roles of this sugar romantic- goofy coms I guess that people were lobotomized by an actress and tarnish her, when she runs away from its stereotype and I'm outraged that they can not see versatility and potential Meg Ryan's polivalency.I just see the reviews, pure flattery these crappy actresses nowadays. Ask for Julia Roberts or Angelina Jolie Already piloted an US army chopper in a role? If Michelle Pffeifer or Goldie Hawn(Private Benjamin) played a role very perfectly and naturally of a single mother and determined who dipped the face on the war, and is required in command and demonstrates tight grip and mastery with weapons? without disparaging the Denzel Washignton, which signal, shone like Nathany when reports for soldiers a Karen Walden's deservering Medal of Honor, after Her death by Naphalms, but the episodes of drunkenness became a look dull and weak. Matt Damon,was terrific, skillfully retraced all the facts of 1991's Gulf War. Lou Diamond-Phillips was excellent as paper rebel, rough and impressive and opposite Cpt. Walden. whole more Credits goes to Meg Ryan & Lou D.Phillips, sure as Denzel is a Core person in this movie.Whatever, everybody stunned theirs performance ,But Meg Ryan razed ,and much. Meg Ryan deserves an Oscar. yet, once in her life gone to win.. If God willing.. She's Powerful and more Capable than Demi-Moore, Sharon Stone,and other contemporanies 90'ties Actresses,but Meg is overrated.
KineticSeoul
Okay so the main reason why I decided to see this movie is cause Edward Zwick directed it since I liked "The Last Samurai". Much better film than "Avatar" hands down. This is one of those feel good movies and that is fine, but it's just not that gripping or touching for that matter. The plot is basically about Nat Serling(Denzel Washington) who is Lt Col a Desert Storm veteran that is going through a guilt trip for accidentally killing one of the guy on his team. And while this is going on he is assigned a task to investigate if Capt Karen Walden(played by Meg Ryan) deserves a medal of honor, since she would be the first woman to receive it. But there is some sort of conspiracy and things just keep getting deeper and deeper. So yeah it's one of those patriotic feel good movies, but I found most of it dull and sort of boring. It just wasn't a very interesting film, I didn't even think the film left a big impact or was that powerful as some reviewers claim it to be. It just didn't seem to worth that much in the end and felt like it was mainly about American heroism but just wasn't that powerful.5/10
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