Gunner Palace

Directed by: Michael Tucker, Petra Epperlein

RS: 3of 4 Stars

2005 Palm Pictures War

"We dropped a bomb on it, and now we party in it," says a soldier in the 2/3 Field Artillery, a.k.a. "the Gunners," referring to Uday Hussein's pleasure palace. Filmmaker Michael Tucker spent two months with the soldiers, documenting their lives. Juxtaposing typically fallacious Donald Rumsfeld comments with raw freestyle raps by the Gunners, the film contrasts Defense Department deceptions with the moment-to-moment challenges of soldiers fresh out of high school. A chilling, powerful film.