Amidst the gritty realities of a soldier’s life as portrayed in the new film, JARHEAD, is the unconvincing transformation of Jake Gyllenhaal into a tough, muscular fighting man.

Photos from the new film show the skinny actor with impressively big biceps. The left arm of the actor is seemlessly fused onto his shoulder with a dexterity that would impress any Photoshop expert. In no other photo of Gyllenhaal that I could find, did his arms have the enormous circumference seen in Universal’s publicity shots for JARHEAD.

Publicists will no doubt be working overtime to talk about the physical training involved (5 hours a day of running up canyons with 25 pound weights wrapped around his legs) or talking up such explanations as: “he ate 5000 calories a day”. As convincing as President Bush talking about the last historic novel he read…………