Good acting, nice cinematography, great film!

Rating: 8/10 (29 October 2012)

This film was good, but the story line itself I found not to be that interesting all the time, what it instead had was lots of fighting with some gems among all of the rubble that this film brought. There were just small moments that made it interesting to watch. The other real highlights in this film I though was in the acting, to see such a diverse cast from some real film classic actors right down to some brand new actors, acting side by side with no real significant emphasis put on any one character, which was nice to see the range of characters.
Some of my favourite parts of this film were Ewan McGregor always going on about coffee, and Eric Bana's amazing performance as the kind of lone soldier who is driven by the fight and wont rest until all of the soldiers are safe, however I really did think that all the acting was superb, those were just some of my favourite moments. As stated before emphasis was well and truly diversified right down to characters like Blackburn played by Orlando Bloom being given majority of screen time before the fight to be killed almost instantly, it really did show that in war all are equal, even famous actors supposedly, which really ties into the Plato quote used at the beginning.
The imagery used was another defining feature of this film, such as the switch between military surveillance and just general shots of the troops, it helped to give the whole film a sense of realism.
All in all I really enjoyed this film and it really did give a good representation of modern warfare, and this tragic event, every loss of a character in the film was shown and sufficient acknowledgement was given to the dead which was also welcome to see in this film.