Heval

A movie about wannabe fighter who is "fighting" against Isis terrorist organisation which was created by CIA-mossad so that Syria's dictator Asad, who didn't agree on petroleum/gas deal with USA, so that he could be overthrown by ypg who was supported by USA so they could formate independent Kurdish government near petrol wells in Syria borders. So that USA could control them and steal as much as petroleum they want. That's the story about wannabe Rambo who thought he is doing something right. This is story about current clown world, theatre playing in middle East. Enjoy the show.

Let me get my standing and intrests clear here.

I was a mechanical engineer in syria before the "Arabic spring" came to our doorsteps. I had a decent job at a loader firm before the civil conflict.

Most peoples ran away when the fighting came to their surrounding. I stayed stubbornly and refused to give my soil to any would be warlords. ISIS came to our vicinity and as one expects it was brutal.. as the other groups began to focus on isis instead on eachother we were relieved when isis retreated.. but that was the begining of an another evil. Those YPG/YPJ bastards came in an it was an another hell hole all over again. Racial segregation, sexual assoults to our children an wifes, brutal policing, etc. It was terrible. Those who were resisting were beaten to pulp and thrown to the street to be collected by close ones if they are even alive at that point... it was one evil traded for an another. Soon most people left the area... When i finaly got the chance i got what i could pack and fled the country too leaving the home turf to them... when i see some ignorant book worm or elite "actor"/director, political analyst talk nonchalantly about the situation there like they are omnipresent i get furios of their bs. I LIVED it, dont you dare paint X group as a hero or Y people as saints they are all the sam pile of manure of a human. And people going there for adventures like this makes it even worse... i feel like im in a zoo and the folks throw bisquits at me...

YPG is not a freedom fighting group and they have nothing to do with freedom or anything good, if you research Turkey's history you will see they they hav e organized many terror acts and reponsible for thousands of dead soldiers in Turkey they even killed babies in the name of the so called "freedom" this is just an uninformed uninspired cash grab full of wrong information.

Rarely does a documentary manage to say so little with so much self-importance. This film treats its audience not as thoughtful participants but as passive receptacles for recycled ideas, poorly organized facts, and long-winded, empty pontificating.

From the start, the documentary mistakes footage for storytelling. It drags the viewer through an endless swamp of aimless interviews, irrelevant archival clips, and sluggish, self-congratulatory narration. It neither informs, nor enlightens, nor provokes - it simply exists, like a lecture no one asked for, delivered by someone who forgot their own point halfway through.

The structure is nonexistent. Scenes tumble into one another with no rhythm, no escalation, no argument. At best, it's lazy; at worst, it's insulting. By the end, it's unclear what the filmmakers were trying to prove - or if they even cared to.

Visually, it's a parade of uninspired shots: endless slow zooms on dusty documents, talking heads framed with all the imagination of a local news broadcast, and enough stock footage to make a PowerPoint presentation blush. Every stylistic choice feels less like a decision and more like a surrender.

Most damning of all, the documentary lacks the courage to confront its own subject matter. It dances around controversy without ever offering insight, as if terrified of alienating anyone or, worse, forcing the audience to think. It plays it safe, but mistakes safety for sophistication.

By the end, the only real mystery left is how this project was ever greenlit in the first place.

When this documentary started, I'm not going to lie, I didn't take to Michael Enright. Being ex-military myself for over 20 years (and having served in some scary places) I knew people like him. Billy Bulls**tters. If you've been to Timbuktu, he's been to Timbukthree, Been to Tenerife? He's been to Eleven-erife. But I think that was the point at the start of the documentary.

The first half puts that doubt in your mind that he's a Walter Mitty. That he's making a lot of it up. Then the detractors speak (one US ex-soldier in particular) to further reinforce that opinion.

But bear with it. It does a whole 180 degree spin. What unfolds proves he has seen things many will never see and he suffers as a consequence. The head-cam footage is terrifying and horrific. One interaction following an ISIS attack almost breaks him and genuinely had me in pieces.

Was he lied to by officials (I'll not give any more away)? I don't know. It's in his interest to lie about this, but he seems reasonably credible. What I do know (and again I'll not spoil things but if you know anything about the Kurds you'll know already), betrayal features highly here. Regardless of your politics, what happens sticks in the craw and makes you feel guilty and embarrassed. He can't go back to the UK (similar fighters against ISIS have been prosecuted) and returning the US seems a futile dream. Sobering stuff.