ol70-236-737734
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Clint did this instead of Spielberg apparently.
Compared to Clints' superb Gran Torino why the horrible empty feeling after watching this.
Film wise great set pieces, sound and action. Also graphically depicts from a single sided point of view anyway, the horror of modern warfare.
Directorially it has plenty of set piece sequences seemingly from video games such as endless spawning enemies to be machine gunned / sniped from various angles.
Cooper & Miller do their bits admirably as cut scene fillers but did we care? Iraqis were "savages". 150 confirmed deaths presented as a game score. Funnily enough the most prominent death: that of our protagonist gets no time at all.
This could / should have been the Deer Hunter of our time but didn't even deliver the Post Traumatic War syndrome message meaningfully.
Compared to Clints' superb Gran Torino why the horrible empty feeling after watching this.
Film wise great set pieces, sound and action. Also graphically depicts from a single sided point of view anyway, the horror of modern warfare.
Directorially it has plenty of set piece sequences seemingly from video games such as endless spawning enemies to be machine gunned / sniped from various angles.
Cooper & Miller do their bits admirably as cut scene fillers but did we care? Iraqis were "savages". 150 confirmed deaths presented as a game score. Funnily enough the most prominent death: that of our protagonist gets no time at all.
This could / should have been the Deer Hunter of our time but didn't even deliver the Post Traumatic War syndrome message meaningfully.
Big budget with teenage humor, gender & racial stereotypes but a la Hangover, American Pie etc sets its stall as such from the outset and made me laugh.
User reviews seem to be either end of the scale with this, as opposed to better received Kingsman which stuck to ultra violence, swearing and ham fisted social commentary rather than this deliberately puerile (occasionally violent) but enjoyable comedy. I also liked the send up of lookalikes especially the lead character Jim Carrey V Zach Galifianakis parody - presuming that was intended.
Its satire too - but I suspect the low scorers here share a fear that this is another 2014 /2015 movie framing a one dimensional view of the rest of the non western world
The cinematography was pretty good too!
User reviews seem to be either end of the scale with this, as opposed to better received Kingsman which stuck to ultra violence, swearing and ham fisted social commentary rather than this deliberately puerile (occasionally violent) but enjoyable comedy. I also liked the send up of lookalikes especially the lead character Jim Carrey V Zach Galifianakis parody - presuming that was intended.
Its satire too - but I suspect the low scorers here share a fear that this is another 2014 /2015 movie framing a one dimensional view of the rest of the non western world
The cinematography was pretty good too!