(The tough drill Sergeant says that he doesn't care whether a person is straight or gay, black or white, his job is to turn him into a marine whom he calls "monsters" ) Such scenes carry on not just for 20 minutes or 40 minutes but for full 60 minutes. He gets into the marine training and we are exposed to extended scenes of the tough exercises schedule and life in barracks which we have seen many times in umpteen movies. (The reason is that he is gay and mom doesn't accept him that way.) He wants his birth certificate so he can join as a Marine and make his mom proud. This is one such movie in this category which starts off showing a young black man (Ellis French) played by Jeremy Pope whose relationship with mom is strained to the point that she doesn't allow him to enter her home. There are some movies which take their own time in developing into something worthwhile and one has a choice of leaving it midway or keep hoping for the best.
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