Mixed Result

Rating: Null/10 (20 August 2017)

No doubt, Clint Eastwood is a genius, he can like no one else deliver a slow, deliberately theater-style film of such a slow and often plodding tempo that you want to jump forth as quick as possible. Eastwood is a master of slow build-up and awesome suspense. He can pick up great actors and make them do their best, like Sienna Miller and Bradley Cooper did here. This film suffered too much heavyweight praise, it has become almost a sacred cow that is not to touch or to be tampering with. Ay, anyway, the film is not without its weaker moments. it is painfully slow far too often, it is very bleak and often too stifling. It is often fer too repeating, and yeah, it smacks of Hurt Locker way too much. Bradley Cooper is a great amazing drama heavy, he does his job very well. But the feeling of some highly strung trying of being more authentic does not leave me even now. Sienna is cool, too, but often too schematic or withdrawn. That said, I did enjoy battle scenes and the great Mustapha / Chris duel, as well as dust storm scene. That said, Black Hawk Down and Hurt Locker are still better