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7Feb/10Off

Taking Chance Movie Review

Keith Malley of the Keith and the Girl Show hates almost every movie he sees.  He didn't even like Avatar!  But, we're not here to have a laugh at his expense.  He mentioned that he saw "Taking Chance" with Kevin Bacon and that it was a very good movie.  I checked it out on Netflix and figured it would be a movie Wife and I could watch.  We typically have differing tastes in films but "Taking Chance" looked like a drama we would both be able to sit through.  So, in it came from Netflix and watch it we did.  "Taking Chance" is a true story about a soldier named Chance Phelps killed in action and the journey of his body to its final resting place.  Kevin Bacon seems to feel guilty about not being in Iraq with his unit because he is working stateside doing troop level reports and stuff like that.  He tends to read the casualty reports every night while his guilt is keeping him up.  Kevin Bacon notices the death of a soldier from his hometown.  He feels it's his duty to deliver the soldier to his final resting place.

The movie follows the departed soldier through every step of the process:
Getting out of Iraq.
Being delivered to a facility in the US.
Being cleaned.  Being loaded on planes.
So on and so on.
A soldier is by his, and every body's, side through every step of the process.  The biggest thing you can take away from it is the enormous level of respect that is payed to each and every casualty of war.  The fact that loads and loads of these kids are coming home that way is incredibly moving.  The movie does a good job of not pushing an anti-war or pro-war message.  It is simply the story of the soldier's trip home.  I can't stress how moving it is.  I can understand some people may think it's a bit slow moving, but it has to be.  So uhhh....its good.  Check it out.

Thanks to HBO for the movie poster.
- Chris

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