Thank You for Your Service (2017)

I didn't know what to expect when I decided to watch this on a flight home but I am glad I did. I know the feeling having served and coming back into civilian life. It wasn't easy. As I watched, I felt every emotion the soldiers felt. I have had what they portrayed. I have asked my wife to see it as there things that are hard to say when one has PTSD. This movie shows not what happens to just American Soldiers but Soldiers around the world. If you don't know anybody in any Armed Forces you may not get this movie; cause you won't appreciate it. If you do, it's an insight to our struggles and governments lack of resource for funding to help those who have served to give a Democracy the freedom and protection people think is free.

I was sold on this movie until the end!The message is clearly given ..... the war in Iraq is corporate driven. Thus the 'officer class' military characters all have the soul of a corporate executive - heartless automatons.Then that sugar coated ending. The message of this pointless war is flushed down the toilet ... wave that flag.I watched this movie for Miles Teller .... his last really good film was The Spectacular Now. Miles - wake-up!

While showing the realism of PTSD, it dishonestly shows that VA is basically uncaring toward veterans. From personal observation, that simply is NOT true and never has been. The healthcare providers do all they can. It has ALWAYS been the administrators that dump on the vets and since this movie was made during Obama administration, it was probably accurate for the time period Obama's VA administrators left vets die on waiting lists, "fixed" the problem, and then had more die on waiting lists.Worth watching once, understanding that like most of the latest Hollywood movies, it's the usual anti-war movie, where all soldiers returning home have mental problems, and definitely anti-VA.

Seeing Amy Schumer starring I had to restrict myself from immediately giving it a perfect score of one. Thankfully, I gave it a try. Thank You for Your Service seeks to put on screen difficulties veterans face upon return from war zone and in my opinion that was done pretty solid.You don't get to see military combat too much - only several minutes are given to war footage. Instead, entire focus has been placed on common, everyday struggle young veterans face. I'm not from USA, but TYFYS certainly criticizes the way American society treats veterans. The thing I feared the most before seeing it was that it's going to be too pathetic in a way only Americans can make it. Luckily (or strangely), it didn't feel that way at all. This movie is ultimately the story about forgiveness: here you can see how hard can it be to forgive, how devastating effect not being able to forgive can have and how life changing forgiveness can be. If you're in a mood for a war-drama with almost entire emphasis on drama, TYFYS may stay with you for a while.P.S. Bruce Springsteen has made a track called "Military Cadence" they used as a credit song. Be sure to check it out.