Muldoon subsequently became a member of the JAG Corps, serving from the late ’80s through the period of the first Gulf War in 1992. He got into the program, and soon was off on a full-ride scholarship to the University of Chicago Law School. “Even though I really wanted to stay in the squadron a little longer, if I didn’t apply in February or March of ’87, all the slots in my year group would have been filled up,” he says. While there, he caught wind of a law education program that put a handful of line officers through law school each year, in hopes of producing Judge Advocate General Corps attorneys with “a real understanding of what the service is about,” Muldoon says. He took the six-week legal officer course. “I thought that this would be like my one little chance of exposure to the legal world,” he remembers. It just so happened that, in his squadron, one of the top junior-officer billets was the position of legal officer. “This was back in the days when Soviet submarines actually left the dock and submerged and transited with nuclear missiles,” he says.Īt the time, law school was barely a passing interest. Right out of college, he joined the Navy-and entered flight school.īefore long he was flying with an anti-submarine aircraft squadron out of bases in Keflavik, Iceland Rhoda, Spain and Lajes, in the Azores. But 25 years ago he was a fresh MIT engineering school graduate who had attended on a Naval ROTC scholarship. The managing partner at Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan in Syracuse specializes in intellectual property litigation in the federal and state courts. Jim Muldoon’s career has followed a kind of hopscotch pattern-though he prefers the term “serendipitous.” IN A NUTSHELL: Stilted, contrived, miscast and forgettable.P3 Orion pilot Jim Muldoon never figured on becoming an attorney. INSULT TO YOUR INTELLIGENCE: Contrived, miscast and stilted. Ultimately, Home of the Brave misses many opportunities to be riveting and powerful and, instead, feels underwhelming and forgettable. Neither of them truly sinks themselves into their roles enough to make them remotely convincing and genuine. Jackson, Jessica Biel, Christina Ricci and Curtis Jackson-if you even want to call him an actor to begin with. Moreover, director Irwin Winkler makes the mistake of casting recognizable actors such as Samuel L. Not a single scene feels true-to-life and all of the characters are one-dimensional. In another contrived subplot, Will deals with his rebellious teenage son by ripping his lip ring right of him in front of his wife, who clearly feels fed-up with him-she pretty much speaks for the audience as well who feels not only fed-up with Will but with this awfully contrived and by-the-numbers film. It’s too bad that the script by Mark Friedman doesn’t allow you to care about her as well. For example, Vanessa, lost her arm during the battle and gets a new one, breaks up with her boyfriend, and ignores the advances of a new potential boyfriend who seems to care about her. When they come back to Spokane, Washington, they all experience post-traumatic syndrome in different ways.
One of the soldiers died among many others while others survive, namely Will (Jackson), Tommy (Presley), Vanessa (Biel) and Jamal (Jackson, a.k.a. soldiers fighting in Iraq and getting injured during battle. soldiers struggle to bring their lives back to normal.ĮNTERTAINMENT VALUE: The opening scenes show a bunch U.S.
Jackson, Jessica Biel, Curtis Jackson, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Presley, Christina Ricci.īASIC PREMISE: After returning from the war in Iraq, a group of U.S. Release Date: December 15th, 2006 (Sony Lincoln Square 68th & B'Way) by MGM.
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