The bravest place to stand is by each other's side.
| Cast |
Ryan Phillippe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rob Brown, Channing Tatum, Victor Rasuk, Terry Quay, Matthew Scott Wilcox |
| Director |
Kimberly Peirce |
| Screenplay | Mark RIchard, Kimberly Peirce |
| Music | John Powell |
| Cinematography | Chris Menges |
| Editing | Claire Simpson |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2008 |
| Produced by | Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, MTV Films, Peirce Pictures |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Strong |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Strongish |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Serious drama about war and its effects on soldiers. Some distressing elements. |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Jeanne Calitz | 10 | |
| The Citizen Peter Feldman | 12 |  |
| 24.com Shaheema Barodien | 10 | |
| BBC Laura Bushell  An emotionally intense film which conveys the human toll of this war on terror. | 10 | |
| eye Weekly Adam Nayman It respects the sacrifices of the battlefield and differentiates between criticizing the war and those who fight it.
| 10 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli It is likely destined for the scrap pile of Iraq war movies whose well intentioned homilies have been betrayed by their dramatic inertness. | 10 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers Here's the first major movie of the new year that touches greatness, and damn if there isn't a curse hanging over it. | 18 |  |
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs As it stands for yours truly, however, it's all competently done (despite wading into some melodrama in the second half), but the lack of personal resonance left me rather blasé about it when I know I should have felt differently. | 11 | |
| Metacritic.com 35 critics | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 135 critics | 13 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Stop-Loss is sincere and complex, and features strong performances, even if it tries to cover too much ground. | 13 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 5452 Netizens Stop-Loss Is Not Anti-War, It's Pro-Soldier | 13 | |
Average .. 58% | 12 | |