Meg Ryan doesn't have a chance to do more than shout orders with a Texas accent but she registers pain and determination well. Matt Damon, in particular, gives a sensitive performance as a guilt-ridden medic, and looks the part, somewhat ascetic, his facial features askew with uncertainty. Everyone, in fact, is quite good in their different ways. The performances are better than I'd expected. Her sex is important to the politicians who are positively drooling over the prospect of awarding her the decoration, but isn't really important to the narrative. (What condescension.) Meg Ryan is a capable and courageous officer who happens to be a woman. And, Gott sei dank, it is not a story in which a woman proves herself as a good as a man, despite the fact that she is a member of the weaker sex. Yeah, it's Rashomon, but not as original or subtle. In a second, she is a coward and collapses under fire. In one story Ryan behaves heroically as described. Washington interviews the crew members and gets different stories. She was flying a medevac helicopter to a crash site when her aircraft was shot down by small arms fire and, apparently, she stayed behind voluntarily and ordered her crew to save themselves while she covered them. He's assigned to investigate the suitability of Meg Ryan as a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor. He neglects his family and begins drinking. The experience leaves him feeling pretty lousy. Colonel responsible for some accidental deaths during a tank battle in the Gulf War.
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