This is how I see it. If you're a republican, you seem to hate it because you were expecting it to be political nightmarish statement of Reps vs. Dems, a Good vs. Evil film & that's not at all what it was. If you are a Moderate, Independent, or really anything besides a republican, I think you're going to like the film. It centers around a group of journalists that is covering the war in itself & the brutality of war & not so much of the why, when, or how the war was started (although, it would've been a little nicer to know those things, but that wasn't really the purpose of the film). I think the character development could've been a little better, but the sound effects & the cinematography was top-notch. I'd say it's definitely worth a watch (even if you are a person who is dying for a real civil war to breakout today)