Roger Ebert's review
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- Ebert’s rating is stated as four stars; no denominator is spoken.
- Ebert’s review is paraphrased as praising the expression of complex ideas about war through images and action, with Upham serving as an audience surrogate.
- The review itself is criticized as weak relative to the film and Ebert’s usual work; Stephen Hunter’s Spielberg’s Hell is offered as a stronger response. The three-and-a-half-star remark is speculation about Ebert’s feelings, not his reported rating.