I will explain why I think this movie is top ten my favorites.
First of all the story was written and incluenced by the Syrian civil war in 2014/2015. So this movie has realism, a lot actually.
Unlike other Middle Eastern war movies where the Americans are always potrayed as the "heroes", this one is about a perspective of a Moroccan living in Belgium, that ended up going to Syria to help, but falled in the hands of ISIS.
So the story has almost everything. Whether if it's about a family with it's issues. Or about friendship and who you can trust. Or about action with guns and bombs. Or about drama where you almost end up crying even as a man.
And if you love details, then for your knowledge, this movie is filled with it:
I love how everything is accurately depicted. They use Al-Hayat Media Center to film propaganda. Just like ISIS did in real life. They use Anasheed (Islamic music) just like ISIS did irl.
The people in the movie also look so amazingly accurate. YPG, ISIS, Turkish Forces, etc. All look 1:1 the same as irl.
More details that most dont notice are that vehicles will always become dirty, characters reappear, little jokes and stereorypes are added.
And no other movie but Rebel has added this one key fearure: language barrier among the Militia.
ISIS was a group with lots of different types of people from the whole world. Some spoke arabic, some german, some dutch, some english, etc.
I could go on with all the other details that the movie added but just watch it yourself.
I personally appreciate this movie a lot and watched it three times already.
