Boring

Rating: 2/10 (17 January 2015)

I watched this movie expecting something which was going to have a magnetism. The moment came and went in the first 15 minutes - when our hero was forced to shoot a child. This was his first ever kill. From there it got very boring as we go through the motions of watching person a kill person b. person c defend against some bad guys. It unfolds just as any war/action movie would but just in a cold slow manner. I nearly gave up and stopped watching. The whole thing dragged on way too long and then as soon as it had started it ended in an abrupt way which suggested to me that director Clint Eastwood had run out of ideas.
I know this review will disappear amongst the tirades of positive patriotic outpourings - but I go with the reviewer who called this film Team America. Its all about how the US can go into someone else's country and flatten it under the false premise of weapons of mass destruction which were truly false and then take the moral high ground. The main character felt compelled to go to war because of the WTC attacks. I thought it was Saudi Arabia that planned and paid for all of that. Yuk in my book.