There are many (far too many) well executed battle scenes, including one stunt with a jeep full of soldiers getting hit with a Molotov cocktail and catching fire that is pretty damn shocking, but after a while, with no clear tension or character objective,
these scenes become tiresome.
Not exact matches
The purgatory
scenes very quickly
become tiresome and the earthly drama simply isn't complex enough to be satisfying.
Unfortunately, Bigelow's literary muse, Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) has delivered a screenplay that falls short of his usual high standards, as moments of Bigelow-esque brilliance are dulled by overdrawn
scenes that
become repetitive and
tiresome.
As noted, the film
becomes less
tiresome in its second half, when the
scene shifts to the Cote d'Azur and the Cannes Film Festival, which is shut down by Godard, Truffaut (who is never seen) and fellow auteurs in support of the Paris rioters.
The honeymoon portion of the movie is absolutely plagued with them and not only do they make these
scenes grow
tiresome fast, but it makes the super serious material
become a joke.