15 Most Underrated War Movies Of All Time

Ned Kelly director Gregor Jordan may have the least lucky career in cinema history. The talented helmer has created some superb flicks such as 1999’s crime comedy Two Hands, and yet his 2008 adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ short story collection The Informers is mostly known for costing its studio millions—as did this darkly comic war flick set in West Germany.

Following the exploits Joaquin Phoenix’s amoral and terminally bored soldier, a deeply likeable and equally deeply flawed specialist, the film sees his troop effectively wreck a small town as well as dealing in some minor heroin distribution in what are effectively Animal House-style frat antics, only in the middle of a war zone. The film may be an acquired taste, but it’s a brilliant image of what an actual war zone looks like in reality, much like HBO’s acclaimed miniseries Generation Kill.

However, the film inevitably ended up underrated when it was released soon after 9/11, resulting in the studio burying the flick due to its less-than-stellar depiction of the American armed forces.