"Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen. And it's a nightmare," says Tom Holland's title character early in the voiceover narration that gurgles like whitewater rapids through the Russo Brothers'Cherry.
A little later, after experiencing the horror of combat as an Army medic in Iraq, he adds: "Suddenly there was nothing interesting about it anymore." You might find yourself nodding in agreement for the wrong reasons during this posturing vanity production, a drama that wears its gritty poetry on its sleeve like a macho film-school merit badge, trivializing war, trauma and addiction with its veneration of style over psychological complexity.
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