Fresh
Tucker takes it all in without taking a stand, though his sympathies -- expressed through voiceover narration -- clearly lie with the men and women in the field.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Gunner Palace
2004 · 1h 25m · PG-13
Documentary, History, War
Directed by
Petra Epperlein
,
Michael Tucker
Overview
American soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a group known as the "Gunners," tell of their experiences in Baghdad during the Iraq War. Holed up in a bombed out pleasure palace built by Sadaam Hussein, the soldiers endured hostile situations some four months after President George W. Bush declared the end of major combat operations in the country.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Rotten
You certainly can't question Tucker's bravery, but you may occasionally feel the urge to ask him to be quiet.
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic
Fresh
While Gunner Palace has the immediacy of street rap, it is actually a throwback to the cinema verite style of pioneering documentarians D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Fresh
But they're very good at documenting the tedium of the place and the work, the banal dangers of an occupation where the enemy could be anyone.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
The film's strength -- and its weakness -- is in its you-are-there view of guys who are e-mailing their loved ones back home one minute and breaking down the doors of Iraqi homes the next, on the hunt for the enemy.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
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