That might be the only way to enjoy this film. The landscape looks nothing like Afghanistan (northern California maybe?), the "Taliban" look nothing like Taliban, and they speak a language (Arabic) the Taliban don't speak. Some of the Taliban are clearly blue-eyed westerners with dark makeup smeared on their faces.
The acting is bad. The overly dramatic music is constant and out-of-place. The little girl just stares at him in half the scenes with an angry look on her face, and the director was clearly trying to make her look exactly like a famous photo of an Afghan girl. How lame and lazy.
Most of the radio communications sound like they were recorded right off the computer speakers from a 1990s video game, the jargon was wrong half the time, and he seemed to fire over 300 rounds of ammo from the 3 total magazines he appeared to be carrying.
In an age of increasing war realism, even from low budget flicks, this film has somehow gone backwards in time and has combined modern overbearing dramatic sound tracks with video game-like voice acting and early 90s believability.
To make it worse, the entire movie has nothing new. Every scene is a one off from other famous movies, photos, or video games. It's like the writers (were there any?) did little more than recollect their favorite scenes from other war movies and then just shoved then into this weird bucket I just watched.
Let's not even talk about the 10 minute intro this movie forced us to sit through, that served very little purpose and could have just been fast-forwarded.
There are too many good war movies out these days to sit through this video game wannabe. Move on.
The acting is bad. The overly dramatic music is constant and out-of-place. The little girl just stares at him in half the scenes with an angry look on her face, and the director was clearly trying to make her look exactly like a famous photo of an Afghan girl. How lame and lazy.
Most of the radio communications sound like they were recorded right off the computer speakers from a 1990s video game, the jargon was wrong half the time, and he seemed to fire over 300 rounds of ammo from the 3 total magazines he appeared to be carrying.
In an age of increasing war realism, even from low budget flicks, this film has somehow gone backwards in time and has combined modern overbearing dramatic sound tracks with video game-like voice acting and early 90s believability.
To make it worse, the entire movie has nothing new. Every scene is a one off from other famous movies, photos, or video games. It's like the writers (were there any?) did little more than recollect their favorite scenes from other war movies and then just shoved then into this weird bucket I just watched.
Let's not even talk about the 10 minute intro this movie forced us to sit through, that served very little purpose and could have just been fast-forwarded.
There are too many good war movies out these days to sit through this video game wannabe. Move on.
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