..Heroes...Just for one day....

Rating: Null/10 (7 February 2014)

Prolly the movie Peter Berg was born to make. Nah, it's defn not a classic. Save all those comparisons to 'Saving Private Ryan' (except for the action, perhaps) too, they're wasted on this. However, it has a great many good things going for it. The casting for one (regardless of the idiotic tell-all title).
Finally, Taylor Kitsch gets a role he can be proud of (Is Berg atoning for 'Battleship'?) - he's in great form, and in good company for sure, with decent (as expected) turns from Ben Foster and Emile Hirsch as well.
The terrain's as much a (-ve) character as are the Pashtun. Bana's little-seen, little- used, but effective as always. This is his second military rescue genre work after 'Black Hawk down'. Speaking of which, this one shares more with that, and with the far-far inferior 'Behind enemy lines' (which could've been better without the ham- fisted direction).
The movie's one hell of a visceral experience, only to be had on the big screen, and I dare anyone not to flinch during the numerous sequences of nature-against-man violence wrought upon the 'survivors'. However, it does get a tad much (not belittling the plight of the lead/s, but more to do with a movie-making perspective), and a little subtlety would've helped, something like the less-is-more approach used by James Wan or William Friedkin. I also quite enjoyed the end-credits track by Peter Gabriel (Heroes) and the New Blood Orchestra(?).
All in all, a decent watch, but its being extremely overrated by people who don't know better.