A pair of young dads (Jorge Diaz and Ian Quinlan) horse around, barely grown up themselves. The soldiers ask each other - rhetorically, then not so rhetorically - whether they could shoot a child. Another scoffs that it’s no wonder the insurgents fear death so little what would you have to live for if you lived in Sadr City? A third resents being made into a killer. One grouses about the Iraqis’ ingratitude toward the American peacekeepers. His grim austerity is contrasted by the bored flippancy with which the younger soldiers meet their tasks. Robert Miltenberger (Jeremy Sisto), a Kosovo vet haunted by war’s savagery who doesn’t let his fatalism keep him from protecting his brothers in uniform. ![]() Shane is both relatable and inspirational, a D&D fan who has to keep his smartest but most aggressive soldier (Jon Beavers) in line to ensure that there aren’t any unnecessary deaths on an already grisly and panic-stricken night. Initially saddled with a baldly manipulative prelude about leaving behind his extremely photogenic children, Bonilla proves a fantastic anchor of a sprawling tale with his level-headed, slightly dorky presence. ![]() His team holes up in an Iraqi home and is forced to take its family of four hostage. Bonilla) and the two squads he’s leading are ambushed by heavily armed rebels. On a routine surveillance run around the city (with an automated cannon towering out of the humvee roof), Lt. But I kept finding myself more often wondering what the characters made of their mission - which was sold to them as humanitarian peacekeeping - than absorbed in the umpteenth firefight between soldiers and insurgents. ![]() The mini is a lavish production, with chases, cityscapes, tanks and explosions vying for attention. That depoliticization lands The Long Road Home somewhere between an earnest brochure and a proper drama.
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