Rocked & loaded

Rating: 4/10 (10 February 2018)

Politically loaded; it's a mess, jingoism typical of Michael Bay and then some. It also isn't technically accurate at all, but then again, it's not a documentary. You'd be a fool to learn about politics and history from a movie. Its sheer existence carries some unfortunate implications. The movie gets a lousy 2/10 if you are concerned with truth (or at least a lack of lies) and at least some objectivity.
If you forget all that--like I really tried to--then the movie rocked. As in it's spectacular. Not as in it's great, because it's not. It loses gravitas due to extremely cliche characters, and some scenes were so poorly executed it all became unintentionally funny in a bad way (and I promise I'm not talking about Oz's hand). I hoped for at least one enemy to grow into a legitimate villain, but they're all just cannon fodder. I suppose Bay wanted to humanise only Americans, and it worked... but you don't have to care about politics to tell that's horrible storytelling. That's a 6/10 for me: I don't regret watching it, but it's generic, forgettable, and I hate the meta.