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Sand Castle (2017)
Based on a true story of a soldier, who has forced to go to with the military forces in Iraq, in order to defend the invasion of Baghdad, that causes many damages and bloodshed that leads other countries to help Iraq to overcome that invasion, so he with his lack of courage struggles against saving his life.
1 January 1977, Southwark, London, England, UK
2 June 1968, Iran
1 November 1976, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
21 October 1988, Austin, Texas, USA
3 July 1965, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
April 20, 2017
Gut-rot emotions are plentiful and powerful, but "Sand Castle" is best with the details of the day, grasping the nightmare of control that is Iraq, which inspires true fear in those tasked with implementing change.April 18, 2017
Sand Castle is an Iraq war story about certain futility, but there's a certain redundancy to political overtones that preach what we've been hearing all along.April 18, 2017
It's that paradigm shift of war in the buzzing age of mass media: There is literally nothing more horrific than war, and yet nothing seems to become overfamiliar more quickly through modern media saturation.April 17, 2017
An Iraq War combat picture that fails to surprise, generic in the extreme.April 21, 2017
Straightforward, but its authenticity is unquestionable.April 21, 2017
Offers too little to the War is Hell genre to be noteworthy.April 20, 2017
There's a good chance you might forget Sand Castle exists moments after watching it, much like how the world seems to have forgotten the massive scandal that the Iraq War was, now that every day basically begins with a chance of it ending in nuclear war.April 23, 2017
Sand Castle does a respectable job of depicting a wretched conflict that none of its participants wanted, but its reason for being feels a little built on sand.April 20, 2017
Sand Castle isn't exactly a modern classic in the tradition of Platoon, but it feels authentic in a way that I suspect those touched by war will find cathartic and comforting.April 17, 2017
Unwittingly perhaps, Sand Castle reveals itself as a microcosm of America's foreign policy in the Middle East.April 21, 2017
An engaging, gripping fact-based drama starring Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road) as a young machine gunner in the U.S. Marines whose platoon is put in the impossible position of saving an Iraqi village.April 18, 2017
SAND CASTLE is another Netflix movie that doesn't really feel like a movie