It can't decide if it's a tribute to a story, or an OTT action flick

Rating: 5/10 (8 February 2014)

I Went into this film with no expectations, just a spur of the moment thing with friends (We flipped a coin between this, and RoboCop.) It tries to be a black hawk down style military true story survival film, but reaches neither the levels of emotion, nor action of that film. Admittedly, I hadn't heard of this story beforehand, but some parts are just far too unbelievable, lack of continuity, tired clichÃ©s, bad dialogue and lack of character development or investment, makes it seem an empty action flick, instead of what it should have been. However, there are good parts to it, the action sequences can sometimes work, and the tension created works well. Overall I just felt, like I'd seen it all before, just this wasn't done as well and no reason to feel anything for the characters. I felt it should have been an emotional personal story, when really, it just turned into a generic military film