BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

dcalonaci Congrats, the worst war movie I ever watched - I'm ready sick of it after 23 minutes. No acting from anyone (my cats act better), RPG and weapons mechanics completely unrealistic (even bullets that hit targets and don't do an hole or a scratch) - and a montage that makes me scream in pain (black fading every 2 minutes!!!)Squad movements and tactics are dumb and unrealistic as well - everything to get them killed.Dialogues are the stereotyped type - but they are, by far, the worse written ones I ever encountered. The completely inexistent acting while saying them doesn't help either.I hope you guys (actors, director especially) finish all on the streets, hoboing somewhere cold

coadavid You know they finally show a movie that depicts what this illegal occupation is all about. No one knows why they are there. Its tragic since so many soldiers die and are harmed, and for what? Bush and Cheney should watch this every time they go to bed at night. Do i see war crimes in the future? Saddam Hessin did less than what these guys did and you no what happened to him! I found the acting not too bad. I mean, how do you act out when you are dying and being blown up? I believe this should be part of history or current events classes in school and not blocked by all the redirect that usually happens. lets be more honest with ourselves and not hypocritical.

Kingonads I don't think the plot was great or really the writing or acting. But it was telling a hard story, that doesn't have much of a plot in real life. I was not in Iraq but I was in Afghanistan in 01-02. I seen that for the most part no the insurgents/Al-Qs/Fedys or what have you couldn't aim. Not saying that all of them sucked but we started joking about purple hearts, (medal for getting wounded in action) calling them Al-Q marksman ship awards. I watched a mortar attack from less than 400m that flew over the heads of everyone that was the target and land 100m behind us. Most of you who are gripeing about the movie, have never really seen a war, you have never seen how people act in a war. This was as good as I expect out of someone who was never there. But you all are also the same people who think Cloverfield is a good movie.

gh frost I want my $1.83 rental fee back. However ....I write novels, I've worked on productions. Anyone involved in writing or production can learn from this disaster.First, the palm trees. Not only are the palms fake, but the crew uses the same fake palms in scene after scene.Second, the locations. Travel the Middle East, study the cinder block construction, the roads, the curbs, the streetlights, the power poles. Take thousands of photos. A better idea would be to stage the action in the night. In this way, a production crew could create a more realistic background for the action.Third, interview veterans of Iraq. How often did they actually see an enemy? In this production, insurgents attack en masse every other minute.All the field details: the soldiers standing in groups to deliver dramatic dialog, walking and talking in the middle of the road, taking cover behind bushes? behind the glass and sheet metal of a car? A 7.62mmComBloc slug will punch through all the steel of a car and kill you. And the truck taking repeated hits from RPG's? The RPG's exploding in a ball of rising fire? Do the Iraqis load their RPG's with gasoline? And taking a wounded American to an Iraqi hospital? Who thought of that stupidity? Medevac in Iraq is 15 minutes from wound to surgery. Iraqis don't even have disposable needles. They don't have sutures. They don't have antibiotics.And a knife-fight to the death with an assault force of Iraqis? They hear the Americans firing pistols, then go silent? 'Oh, they're out of ammunition, let's let them knife us.' And after the climatic knife-fight, the soldiers take to the road with empty weapons? Who financed this trash? Send me money. I'll buy the stories of veterans, put together a righteous action-adventure drama.ghfrost google that name