Three Words for the Cameraman....

Rating: 5/10 (28 February 2008)

BUY A TRIPOD!!! I only watched this movie because I'm in Iraq and will watch pretty much anything at this point. Plus, I really like Catherine McCormack. The shaky-cam was cool and edgy when it was a new, innovative technique. But it has become so commonplace that I'd reckon that it's time to move on and find something new.
Yeah, this film is fraught with stereotypes and enough plot holes to fly a squadron of jets through safely. Admittedly, I couldn't watch the entire film. It was intolerably loaded with inaccuracies; blatant glaring inaccuracies. First, when the kiddies are in-processing through the medical station and alighting at the subway station, in the background are Soldiers in full battle-rattle, locked and loaded. There is security every ten feet in secure areas, but no security on the bridge leading into and out of the green zone. There's no security on the infected patient. There are no roving guards outside the peri. The sniper witnesses the kids leave the green zone and does little to stop them or take any decisive action to notify anyone. There would be concertina wire around the bridge. A Soldier enters a house and begins clearing it alone. No Soldier would enter a house by himself. After the husband is infected and clearly shows signs of infection, he encounters two Soldiers who run up to him and seem to want to play patty-cake with him instead of shooting him on sight before he closes. The final straw that caused this crusty old Soldier to rip off my headphones and slam my laptop shut mid-movie was when the officer in charge walked past his gauntlet of indoor sentries, each of whom saluted him (something an interior guard in a tactical environment would not do) into the tactical operations center and someone yelled, "Ten-hut!" No one in the real Army would utter such nonsense.
This film blows. Its only redeemable quality is that it has Catherine McCormack, but even she doesn't last long.
Thunder Phil out