Netflix Movie Review - "Tropic Thunder"

REVIEW: Because two of the actors in this movie received Golden Globe nomination, our expectations were fairly high. Maybe too high. This movie, supposedly trying to draw on inspiration from films like Apocalypse Now and Platoon, falls far short. Even though Stiller leads an all-star cast that includes Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey and Nick Nolte, with Tom Cruise as a crude movie mogul, we thought it was terrible. It was hard for us to understand how either Downey or Cruise received Golden Globe nominations. Though there were some funny lines, we just felt that there wasn't enough to carry the whole movie. We disliked it so much that we stopped watching it half-way through. Maybe it is just us, but we give it [1-1/2 Stars]

SYNOPSIS: This is a war movie about the filming of a war movie in which a group of dimwitted actors are forced to become real-life soldiers when they're abandoned in the jungles of Southeast Asia.