jasgeo

I acknowledge many will disagree, indoctrinated as they are, but I imagined this movie about the human detritus of imperialism would put at least some effort into accuracy.

Instead we got hollywood excess where every amerikan bullet killed 99% of afghani bullets missed and each firefight of which there was too many to be believable ended with piles of dead 'taliban' aka freedom fighters and whatever imperialist deaths were only of 'decent chaps' doing their best.

There was no suspense by the end of act 3 you would have had to be blind, deaf and extremely stupid not to know the cavalry were about to turn up.

In fact is most resembled a 1960's western about how the decent amerikans killed maximum numbers of indigenous americans, then the bugles sounded as the forces of 'good' on horseback arrived in the nick of time to slaughter the women & children.

Not a film for anyone who cares about all human beings, not just the ones a mob of greedy & egoist politicians tell you are the heroes.

And that is saying something. There have been some shockers but this lame attempt to depict Poles overstriving to come across as amerikans really takes the prize.

Anyone who has spent any time in Poland will see how lame this show is.

Even worse than the materialism of the characters, the characters try to behave as stupidly as they imagine amerikans to think.

Parents who are far too old to have forgotten their society don't talk to their children they spy upon them, the result of this screwed up mishmash manages to avoid any sense of reality. Whoever did the make-up needs to learn not to accentuate every pock mark on actor's faces.

Lame sad & stupid.

Yep here we go again someone with too many dollars and not enough sense has made a movie, unfortunately they didn't have enough for a capable scriptwriter, competent director or actors capable of expressing anything other than a shout to indicate anger.

Even Eric 'where's my paycheck' Roberts also succumbs to that failing.

Why oh why do these dingbats do this instead of parking their egos and investing in the huge range of whatchamacallit, talent, currently littering the planet who are able to write, direct or act in a great movie if only they had the dollars to realise their goal.

Don't believe the spruikers who have posted reviews outta either care for their friends who made this turkey or the dollars whatever rich fool who funded it paid them.

This movie fails on every aspect of film-making. In fact its a damn shame the DP remembered to remove the lens cap.