Courage Under Fire

What emerges may not be quite as cut-and-dried as the movie’s structure sometimes implies.

If a woman in command has wounded soldiers that need protecting from enemy forces, and her maternal instinct kicks in-look out.

Washington, subtle, moving and charismatic, anchors the movie...Zwick's movie is solid, honorable and well crafted, but when all the veils have dropped and the mysteries solved, it feels tidier and more melodramatic than it promised.