This movie had potential. The acting isn't bad and the idea is solid. Unfortunately, I couldn't get past the quintessential premise that the lead's husband was somehow posthumously the subject of military punishment after being killed in combat. WTH??? For what? Getting killed without permission? Like a company, battalion or brigade commander is going to push through some kind of negative separation status for someone in their command who is already dead? The story that David told must have included Matt murdering women and children and burning villages on his way to getting shot to justify this kind of administrative response.
And the kicker is that, while someone with an "other than honorable" or worse discharge would be ineligible for certain veteran's benefits, it wouldn't affect their SGLI (life insurance) since the only qualification for that is that you died. So Lillian should still have received this payout.
Then David is somehow brought back into service and incarcerated for "lying" about the fact that he ignored orders to withdraw and chased an enemy combatant into a tunnel which led to his being wounded and friend killed. Maybe he was so full of guilt that he altered his story to include actually shooting Matt himself. This whole plot point is just such BS and because they made it the basis of the whole story . . . It ruined the movie for me. It would be like throwing in an intervention by aliens, Santa or some kind of magical coincidence.
And the kicker is that, while someone with an "other than honorable" or worse discharge would be ineligible for certain veteran's benefits, it wouldn't affect their SGLI (life insurance) since the only qualification for that is that you died. So Lillian should still have received this payout.
Then David is somehow brought back into service and incarcerated for "lying" about the fact that he ignored orders to withdraw and chased an enemy combatant into a tunnel which led to his being wounded and friend killed. Maybe he was so full of guilt that he altered his story to include actually shooting Matt himself. This whole plot point is just such BS and because they made it the basis of the whole story . . . It ruined the movie for me. It would be like throwing in an intervention by aliens, Santa or some kind of magical coincidence.