An unexpected friendship, post 9/11 and between a young female soldier (Kristen Stewart) and a Guantanamo Bay detainee (Peyman Moaardi) is the premise of director Peter Sattler’s Camp X-Ray.

Both leads, Stewart and Moaardi deliver good performances. But there were definitely times when I had to check the time because things just weren’t moving fast enough.

Perhaps the pace was deliberately slow to give the viewer a better idea of what life at Guantanamo Bay was actually like. Either way, I’m glad I made it to the end because the last thirty minutes is when the most engaging events take place.

All my questions about how this most unlikely of friendships came to be are fully answered in a way I found satisfying and well-executed.

I say, watch Camp X-Ray if you have similar curiosities. You’ll certainly get more than a little glimpse of what life can be like as a female soldier in the U.S. Army, among other things,

Happy Film Loving,

G