A BEAUTIFUL and heartbreaking story.

You can definitely tell that the real United States, Marine Corps didn’t support the movie. I can understand, considering it’s an independent film with a small budget. The message is what’s important. The story is great, and the portrayal is long overdue. I knew many gay people during my Navy career, and many of them, were some of the best coworkers I ever had. My biggest criticism is that the Alphas (dress uniforms) the Marines were wearing for their boot camp graduation were far from presentable. They were wrinkled, and did little to portray the pride new Marines would’ve had at a time like that. Other than that, hats off to the movie. Definitely “two snaps up!”

The Inspection is a powerful yet unsettlingly inconclusive account of an important, haunting period in a man’s past.

A by-the-numbers boot camp drama elevated by resonant emotional truth and seen through the revealing lens of all-too-lived experience.

James Dyer

Empire

Some experiences are so profound (and/or scarring) that they elude explication. The Inspection is about that sort of experience, which translates far beyond boot camp and resonates through our lives, until the final trumpet fades.

Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com