Not too many films take a true interior approach to telling a war story. Certainly not about a large-scale war in which three of the world's largest armies fought and which, even now, hardly anyone talks about. The Forgotten has enough action for intelligent viewers without neglecting the fear, confusion, dementia and sudden death faced by GIs in Korea.
Of course, war pictures always introduce characters, but the explosions and 'big picture' addiction always take over, both in terms of studio pyrotechnics and the way soldiers always seem to understand the geopolitical ramifications of what they are doing. This picture does not harbor those conceits-or easy answers about good and evil.
Vincente Stassola's direction injects the right amount of claustrophobic tension, giving us just enough air before shoehorning many of the great questions of our time into a battle tank patrol and letting them rattle around.