Though it's one thing to see our excellent military in action, it's pathetic to see that they were sent to a war that President Trump described as Bush's Biggest Mistake in US History. Mr. Trump also added that the US has spent over 7 trillion dollars and that the war in the Arab region brought about the death of over a million men, women and children.
This film, like so many other war films about that region of the world, typically avoids mentioning anything about the foolishness of the war. The enemy is never referred to as a ''Patriot'' fighting a foreign Invader of their country, namely the USA. Instead they are dismissed as Insurgents or terrorists.
The viewer sits watching from the helicopter as it flies over mainly barren lands and poor areas with low quality buildings, in other words, 3rd World type living standards, The death machines fire their super expensive high tech weapons into whatever is down there. Nobody hears the screaming or sees the collateral damage.and the viewer like the pilots remain insulated from all of that bloody mess.
There's no mention in the film that ISIS arose out of and because of this war. Nor is there a hint given that the mayhem and instability these weapons and war created in the region, caused millions of Islamic people to become homeless and later flood into Europe,the USA and other parts of the world.
It is films like this that leave out important facts and try desperately to make our troops look like heroes, when in reality, they are men who have to risk their lives to follow orders originated by what President Trump described as, two blundering fools in the White House.
Perhaps if films like this were more honest and were to mention real and truthful pertinent facts about a particular war, the world would have fewer wars.
We look at the splash screen cover for the film Apache Warrior, and see the choppers coming in at an angle with explosions all around, down below the evil enemies are firing away, guns a-blazing.
But in reality we see high tech weapons sneaking through the night toward unsuspecting people, many of them totally innocent and uninvolved. Even the pilots or command center don't know what they've killed below. They hope they got the bad guy but they don't know, nobody does, except the survivors.
The next time a semi action documentary film on our Arab war is made, it would contain a much higher quality, if it were to mention that Dick Cheney who mainly engineered the war, was once CEO of Halliburton, a Giant contracting firm that got huge contracts to go in and rebuild the infrastructure that was destroyed in the Arab region.
If a film is going to show troop heroes let them also show the anti-heroes who put the troops lives at risk to award contracts to the Military Industrial Complex.
The only interesting thing about the film is watching the communication of the fighting forces with command centers and seeing the technical, mechanical and weather difficulties the pilots have to deal with,
Unfortunately the fact that over a million people are dead because of Bush and Chaney's war, the film ends up leaving a stench in atmosphere of the real world.
