Simple-minded war porn.

Rating: 4/10 (5 January 2014)

For the first 45-60 minutes, I enjoyed the well-played look and feel of an elite military culture - the compound, the camaraderie, the language all felt realistic and captivated me.
The attempts to humanize the characters were weak and lazy. Tropic Thunder actually came to mind a few times, with the cliché one-liners. There wasn't any attachment to the characters that forced me to cling to the heroes of the movie. Even the anti-heroes, the Afghans, had no soul or objective whatsoever, and I really found it to be pro-American and devoid of any plot depth in that regard. I would cringe in embarrassment at this movie in about 50 years, I'm sure.
I wanted this film to be challenging. It began as though it was going to raise some serious dialogue about war and civilization, but it ended up being a shoot-out action hero sequence that NEVER ENDED.
Do I really even need to tell you how it ended?