My Thoughts.

Rating: 8/10 (8 January 2002)

This past Friday I was given the opportunity to link up with a few of my best friends in the whole world and watch a movie about the most life changing thing that has ever happened to us.
I will try to let you know what I think. This is me talking, and not my fellow Ranger buddies, they all have their own opinions.

I think that the movie does a good job of telling the story. There are some things that are in my head that happened different, but this is Hollywood, and that is to be expected. The actors involved in this movie did an excellent job of doing the right thing and trying "play their parts" to give honor to those who lost their lives. If I ever get to meet some of these guys again, I would shake their hand, and tell them thank you.

It's hard to show what was going on in a situation like the MOG, but I think they did well. They had to smush some things together and make some characters into 3 or 4 different people to make the stroy flow. They also had to make some things happen out of time sequence and in the wrong areas. I have no problem with this, because they needed to make the story flow. I think they did just that.
It was a very emotional experience for me, and I'm glad that I was able to see and talk to my Ranger buddies right after I saw it. THANK YOU CARMIKE.
There are some things in the movie that are not tactically correct, but th en again, it's Hollywood, and they are into this to make money.... So I will not get too much into what I think was wrong. You have to make your own opinions on this one.
There was not enough volume of fire going on throughout the movie. We saw a lot more fire, and sent a lot more bullets down range than the movie shows. Also, it has to be hard for someone to grasp that in this fire fight, targets were on our left, right, front, rear, in the windows, and on rooftops. If they showed the amount of fire that was really happening, the general public would think that it was fake, so I understand.

The actors did a great job of "being" the characters they were playing. I just wish that I could have seen it with all of TFR. That way I would really know what each person thought.
The battle scenes are good, and the sound effects are spot on (in my opinion). The Camera work was really good. Trying to show how confusing it really was while we were trying to do our mission.
In my opinion, the Rangers looked and acted like Rangers, as well as the Operators. Bad thing was that they made the Rangers look a little indecisive, which was not the case. But that's a whole different rant.