Thank You for Your Service (2017)

Thank You For Your Service is one of those perfectly formidable films about PTSD, but it's also nothing I haven't seen in other films. So while it's undeniably well-made and well-acted, it's tough overly praise something that I have ultimately seen before.

The film follows 3 soldiers, just returning home from Iraq, as they struggle emotionally to re-introduce themselves to the family they haven't seen in months, or even years. Starring Miles Teller, Joe Cole, and Beulah Koale as close friends/soldiers who are looking for a way to cope with PTSD as the events in Irag haunt them through their day-to-day life. Much like most war films, there are some haunting images and scenes that are shown throughout 'Thank You For Your Service', and actually the film plays better as a heads-up to be aware of the troubles that Veterans go through after war. So I guess in that way, this story may have been better served as a documentary feature.

In narrative form, there are some great performances and visually stunning scenes, however it's mostly a slow building and grueling experience emotionally and physically for these characters. Speaking of performances, there is one particular actress who just feels completely out of place in this film. It's not necessarily fair for me to call her out of place, because she actually gives a fine performance, but I'm just not used to her playing someone who should be taken seriously. That actress is Amy Schumer. Again, it's not a bad performance but I just found myself wondering how those scenes would have played out with a different actress.

Thank You For Your Service is a good example of a film which I'm glad was made, but it's not an absolutely necessary film to watch. It's a nice reminder though to think about all of the Veterans of war who are constantly looking for help post-war time. In that regard, it's a well-strung together film.

7.0/10

Fmovies: Seeing Amy Schumer starring I had to restrict myself from immediately giving it a perfect score of one. Thankfully, I gave it a try. Thank You for Your Service seeks to put on screen difficulties veterans face upon return from war zone and in my opinion that was done pretty solid.

You don't get to see military combat too much - only several minutes are given to war footage. Instead, entire focus has been placed on common, everyday struggle young veterans face. I'm not from USA, but TYFYS certainly criticizes the way American society treats veterans. The thing I feared the most before seeing it was that it's going to be too pathetic in a way only Americans can make it. Luckily (or strangely), it didn't feel that way at all.

This movie is ultimately the story about forgiveness: here you can see how hard can it be to forgive, how devastating effect not being able to forgive can have and how life changing forgiveness can be.

If you're in a mood for a war-drama with almost entire emphasis on drama, TYFYS may stay with you for a while.

P.S. Bruce Springsteen has made a track called "Military Cadence" they used as a credit song. Be sure to check it out.

United States war veterans are susceptible to many effects after combat, specifically PTSD and other mental issues. These usually are not curable and require a lot of time and rehabilitation to suppress the side effects. The movie Thank You for Your Service shows exactly how war veterans have to deal with what they experienced overseas in combat zones. It is a great example of how the people are unaware of how drastic the change from war to reality can be, and how it is an emergency because veterans are committing suicide at increasing numbers. The movie starts with Sgt. Adam Schumann (Miles Teller) fighting in Iraq and trying to save his fellow soldier Michael Emory (Scott Hase) who had been shot in the head. Sgt. Schumann feels very guilty throughout the entire movie because of how he physically handled Emory while he was saving him. The movie then shifts towards post war life for Sgt. Schumann, and his two best friends who fought alongside him, Solo Aeiti (Beulah Koale) and Billy Walker (Joe Cole). All three soldiers find it very hard to adapt to a civilian lifestyle so quickly. Both Adam and Billy have thoughts of suicide, and Solo has trouble with memory due to brain trauma during battle. The movie does a great job displaying how PTSD is a very common and horrible disorder that veterans have to fight. Both Miles Teller and Beulah Koale do an excellent job of portraying veterans who are dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder. I feel that they make the audience feel very comfortable with the idea of this being a true story. Miles and Beulah do not exaggerate their roles of being mentally scarred from war, and specifically Miles, handles himself just as I would imagine a war veteran to. The acting overall allowed for me to become engrossed in their issues. I feel that the director James Hall did a fantastic job with the layout of this film. Traditionally a war movie will contain much more scenes of war and death. The movie had scenes in the beginning of what would be the conflict later in the film. Instead of constantly showing war footage that is unrelated, Hall uses the perfect amount of battle footage to inform the viewer of the situation. Hall had previously written the movie American Sniper which had shown how war had affected Chris Kyle over multiple deployments overseas. However, Hall made this film completely stand apart from his previous movie, because in American Sniper the majority of the movie was about Chris Kyle's (Bradley Cooper) military accomplishments and in Thank You for Your Service he focused on the post-war effects. However, an issue that I had found with this film is that it was stated it was "Based on a true story" however the book is accurate to the true story, and the film's script moved away from the actual story. This takes away from the way society should interact with war veterans. The film did tend to get a little too dramatic at times but that is expected for an emotional settings. Overall, Thank You for Your Service was well written, directed, and acted. Even though it wasn't exactly like the book, it did a great job of explaining how men and women come back home from war, and can't transition smoothly. It keeps the viewer connected and intrigued. There isn't much to dislike about soldiers trying to find peace with their lives after years of combat.

Thank You for Your Service fmovies. This was a very difficult movie to watch. Rather than a war movie, it's an after-the-war movie with the returning soldiers all struggling to cope with different degrees of physical and mental disability. Betrayed by loved ones they left at home, struggling with brain injuries due to road-side bomb attacks, plagued with survivor guilt and all of them let down by the Army and Veterans Administration that's supposed to be helping them.

The movie it is most like is the outstanding "The Best Years of Our Lives" which was a multi-Oscar winner in its day, following how three war veterans try, with varying degrees of success, to reclaim their civilian lives. "Thank You for Your Service" is a much more brutal version of that story in terms of language and emotional angst of the survivors. Both are well worth watching.

There tend to be two kinds of films when it comes to war and the military: the kind where you have the against-all-odds soldiers achieving the impossible to protect the freedoms that we enjoy every day and the "war is hell" stories that paint a bleaker picture of pain, fear, and loss. Just like with most storytelling, both are right, both are wrong, neither are right, and neither are wrong. Much like a painting done by different artists, the more perspectives that are given on a particular subject matter give those that consume that subject matter a more complete picture. In the matter of Jason Hall's take on David Finkel's book "Thank You for Your Service," there is a little bit of both and a little bit of neither.

Miles Teller plays Sergeant Adam Shumann, who is returning from a particularly rigorous tour of the Middle East that involved loss and damage to some of his compatriots. Along with Solo (Beulah Koale) and Will (Joe Cole), they each bring their own parts in their shared adventures home with them with varying results and one thing in common: darkness.

"Thank You for Your Service" is a film that actually works on a few different levels for me. Going in, I was worried that its message would borderline on a political statement or venture into the territory of caricature, but it doesn't do either of those things more than it has to. This is a gritty, honest, and in-your-face look at what happens to our young men and women that put their lives on the line in the middle of nowhere on a completely different continent than they have ever known not only on the battlefield but also the aftermath on how they deal with the families they have been without for way too long, the lives they left behind, and a system that is so overwhelmed and understaffed that they cannot get the help they need in a timely manner. Teller keeps his performance in the pocket as he should and lets his co-stars have their moments as well. Shumann is a man who suffers on his own not because of his pride but because of his love and concern for those around him to not have to carry the burdens he does, and Teller's work with Haley Bennett as his wife, Saskia, is nothing short of pure and palpable. Koale also embodies his role well as a young man who believes that the Army "saved his life" while trying to fight off a level of PTSD that cannot simply be ignored. There is also a very impressive turn here by Amy Schumer (and yes, you read that right) as the widow of one of the soldiers in her unit who wants answers and cannot find them. It is nice to see her stretch her dramatic chops in a way that I have not seen before without me going "oh, it's Amy SchumerÂ… so, there's THAT". She truly is impressive here, and I hope to see her do more challenging roles down the road.

This is a film that I hope can been seen as a conversation starter on a subject that needs more light shown upon it because it does so in a very respectful way that is not too preachy or overly stated. It has a strong statement and is not afraid to let its message be put out there. "Thank You for Your Service" is a rare film that people from all walks of life and opinions can go to and see it for what it is and in doing so can hopefully open a dialog that needs to be continually had from multiple levels.

A mixer of war, drama and pure adventure. The movie is a ballance equillibrium of all these aspects. The movie starts with the early war actions of military personnel in iraq. But they return after war and haunted by those memories.Those memories shattering their personal life, their dreams and emotions, their surroundings...

This movie is a different genre movie..not a typical fast action or mysterious thriller movies...not an excellent dreamy sci-fi movie...rather it is a movie of true passion of life..A movie containing real life drama..real heart and mind...real flesh and blood..slow but steady..

Acting is superb.Most of the movie is full of nostalgic scenes of battlefield.They are true colour of life. Most members have acted well enough to visualize the full drama.

Critics may have many opinions of their own. I don't know what they will say about the film. But i have enjoyed the movie very much.Now it's your turn.