"Generation Kill is in many ways the most straight-ahead, apolitical portrait yet of who's fighting our wars for us," writes Robert Abele; also in the LA Weekly, Matthew Fleischer talks with Evan Wright, who wrote the book the HBO series, premiering tomorrow, is based on.
The New York Times' Alessandra Stanley finds it "bold, uncompromising and oddly diffident. It maintains impeccable dignity even as it tracks a group of shamelessly and engagingly profane, coarse and irreverent marines, members of an elite reconnaissance battalion that spearheaded the invasion. The odyssey of these men from training tents in Kuwait to occupied Baghdad is laid out with brutal candor and without the aid of maudlin cinematography or emotive music."
Continued reading HBO's Generation Kill....
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