If you're looking for a war hero who's perfect and 100 percent sympathetic—you know, a white knight and all that—keep looking, because Staff Sergeant William James is not that guy. Don't get us...

Sergeant JT Sanborn seems like a decent-enough guy, but he definitely doesn't think too much of our protagonist, Will—well, at least at first. In fact, he even contemplates killing him. Yup, his...

Oh, Eldridge. Let's be real: he's got his flaws, but we have a lot of sympathy for him. While his buddies Will and Sanborn are acting all macho, aggressive, and crazy, Eldridge is pretty much just...

Colonel John Cambridge is a doctor whose primary role in the film involves helping—or "helping"—Eldridge cope with life in a war zone. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to be getting far with his...

Beckham is mostly comic relief in the movie, even though his character becomes part of a pretty dark subplot for Will at one point. He's a local kid who hawks DVDs near the U.S. camps, and his aggr...

The colonel seems like quite the tough guy...and maybe not the most likeable one. For example, he decides that an injured Iraqi man (who's possibly a sniper) is a goner, even though another soldier...

Connie is Will's wife and the mother of his child. It seems like Will thinks they are broken up while he's in Iraq, but when he comes home, we see them all living together—you know, doing family...

Sergeant Matt Thompson (Guy Pearce)We don't get to spend too much time with Thompson since he's blown up in the first few minutes of the film. We don't know a lot about him, but his team clearly lo...