Day 145: The Tillman Story

Directed By- Amir Bar-Lev

Narrated By- Josh Brolin

Starring- Pat Tillman

Critics Review- "It's heartbreaking."- Liz Braun "Jam! Movies"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 93% Audience- 90%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 5 stars

My Review-

This is one of the more heartbreaking documentaries I have ever watched. Pat Tillman played for the Arizona Cardinals, he gave up a multi-million dollar contract to join the Army and serve his country. The reasons behind his decisions are unknown, however the media turn his death into something else. In this documentary in way get to know who Pat Tillman was before he joined the military and the events after his death, which now we know was the cause of Fraticide (friendly fire). Throughout the documentary it goes through Pat's life, when he started football and when he left for the Army. Most of the this documentary is about how his parents wanted to uncover what happened to their son on April 22, 2004. While I really do not want to give much away because it should be watched. It goes into detail on the family and how they fought to get the truth about their son. It has interviews from some of Tillman's friends that were in the same platoon as him and their account of what happened that night. During the course of the documentary we see that the media also had a hand in twisting around certain things about Pat Tillman and why he did what he did. I do not want to give much away and if did I did not mean too, but to get the full effect of this documentary it should be watched to see what opinion you have on the film and how you feel after watching. It is up to you how you see Tillman after this documentary, did you see him as a football player looking for a purpose? or just as a normal soldier fighting for his country? This documentary also would not have worked as well as it did, aside from being a true story based off of someone who gave everything up, if it had not been narrated by Josh Brolin. He did a really good job being the narrated of what I think is his first documentary narrating. This man's life was cut way to short, I guess that's what happens when someone goes to war, however it should have never happened the way that it did.