Disbelief suspended... right off a cliff

Rating: 1/10 (17 November 2014)

I pretty much tuned out at that moment and gave up on the film altogether a short while later. I looked up the actual events on Wikipedia because I genuinely could not believe that anything I was seeing could have happened. The fact that most of the story is the sole recollection of a critically injured individual then fed through a Hollywood filter shines an unlikely light on most of it.
The four men take rifle rounds like they are BBs and receive only superficial facial wounds after jumping off cliffs and crashing into rocks and trees. Therefore the events in the film are either grossly exaggerated or the laws of physics had been suspended that day. Either way I just lost interest. Mixing 'based on a true story' with 'Rambo 6: Revenge of Rambo' doesn't work.
Besides that though the film just generally angered me as I couldn't understand the motivations behind what the characters were doing. The beginning of the film which showed a montage of the incredibly harsh training they go through painted a really amazing picture of the physical prowess required to become a Navy SEAL. It didn't show any kind of tactical training or any tests involving logic, reasoning or just plain common sense though and that is probably for the best.
The team faced a tough choice when confronted with the goat herders and no option was palatable. However why they chose the one which was guaranteed to give their position away and see them hunted to extinction was just baffling. They knew they would go back to the village and alert the large ruthless militia yet still the option of simply taking them with them as they bugged out didn't even merit consideration apparently. They could have remained unnoticed and released them when they were out of the woods (literally). But no...
So then, with the knowledge that an army was likely coming for them they decided not to put some extreme distance between them and the village but instead to hide in a forest and get discovered in short order. Then they choose the brilliant tactical option of jumping off a cliff thus leaving themselves injured, unarmed and with the high ground in the hands of the enemy.
Nothing in this film made sense.