Poor Film That Could Have Been A Zombie Epic

Rating: 2/10 (15 April 2008)

Ridley Scott has made a mess. Much like his later effort "American Gangster", Scott throws the viewer into a world with no introduction and you are left to pick up the pieces and catch up. Either that or he assumed the audience knew it all before going in. That might explain his use of tiny illegible subtitles to convey information, just like in "American Gangster". The actors were almost all wasted. You couldn't tell who was who. They all looked the same. You don't care about them at all. To drive this home, Scott portrays the interchangeable soldiers as arrogant, ignorant cry babies who run when the going gets tough. The American command is portrayed as an electronic age Custer, and the Somali and the Mujahadeen who came to fight the Americans are portrayed as Indians in a 60's western. The whole film is whites vs. black stereotypes with sunglasses and guns. What a terrible film that goes on way too long. Just wasted effort.