Complete Garbage!

Rating: 4/10 (28 January 2014)

I never imagined the movie would really be this bad. Even after the reviews starting coming out. This is Friday Night Lights meets Rambo III. Look Friday Night Lights was a great show, and Rambo III was entertaining enough in its 80's Hollywood action adventure way, but the two together is just a disaster. Really the guys of Operation Redwing deserved better. It is a shame that somebody like Che Guevara gets an epic two part film about his life, but these soldiers do not.
I suppose Soderbergh's film about Guevara comes to mind because my impression after reading Luttrell's book, was that it should have had a two volume structure. The first going much more deeply into the lives and background of Dietz, Axe and Murphy than Lutrell's book actually did, and concluding after the firefight. While the second volume would focused on Luttrell and his long efforts to survive. The thing is you can't blame Lutrell for failing to produce a work of true literary genius, even though the subject matter begged for it. However I can blame Hollywood for failing to make even a good film about the subject.
It is a sad commentary on our culture that 100 times more thought and effort was put into making a film about Che Guevara then these truly heroic men.