Sharknado of War Films

Rating: 3/10 (28 November 2017)

Sat through the turgid cheesy opening half expecting some decent war film action in 2nd half. From the over the top stepping through heads and entrails to the never end stream of slowmo shots of machine gun shooting while screaming, it made Tropic Thunder look like Apocalypse now. Yes it is based on true events but really, is this the way to portray true heroism ? When the Thin Red Line exists, from the same theatre of war, which depicts the reality in a much more gut wrenching way. Who thought Vince Vaughan could play a tough drill sergeant, who thought up the dragging through the mud, rear gunner style machine scene could be taken seriously, who thought the scene of a soldier volleying a grenade away was anything other than laughable, probably the same director who stole all the component parts of other war films and stitched them together into a parody that is totally unaware of itself. I would go so far as to say it is an insult to the genre. It gets a 3 based on some technical flair and the heroics of the true story.