‘The Mosquito Bowl’ Review: Football Heroes Take to the Battlefield in Peter Berg’s Emptily Macho WWII Epic
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Summary
No one familiar with the oeuvre of Peter Berg — the action merchant behind the Afghanistan war drama "Lone Survivor" and the improbably pumped-up boardgame adaptation "Battleship" — should approach "The Mosquito Bowl" expecting great restraint or good taste. Ostensibly, Berg's Netflix-backed combat epic is fighting the same fight as Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red […]
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