*yawn*

Rating: 4/10 (16 October 2017)

Yes, this was a very disrespectful title, and I apologize right away. I didn't mean to offend the actual servicemen or anyone else in real life. But this movie was simply boring and dull for anyone who is not American. Even for a military history buff like me.
They say that life writes the best screenplays. Well, this one wasn't worth watching. Just because something dramatic and terrible actually happened, it's not necessarily movie material. What we got is a docudrama which hardly documents anything the world should care. Here is what happened:
America started a war. America sent in some soldiers. Yeah, Navy SEALs, I got it. Many people were killed, finally the Americans had their asses kicked too. Then they made a movie about it. "Hey, look how terrible this war was!" Aww, poor America, you got spanked again? Wanna cry about how your well-paid volunteer mercenaries were shot at? Poor guys. Some even died? Oh my God.
Who is the hero: the one inserted into enemy territory with the world's best equipment to go kill and destroy... or the one who picks up a battered AK with no training and face them on his own soil, in his own village, not running away even when dozens of his buddies, many of them family members, bite the dust against these invincible bipedal killing machines?
For a non-American, this is a miserable movie, and there is little pride in what it depicts. The Germans could make a similar movie about an SS raiding party attacking a Russian partisan village. The Russians could make a similar one about their Afghanistan war.
The greatest problem with this movie is that it tries to depict the main characters as some heroes. They are not heroes. They may be in their compatriots' eyes, but anywhere else in the world they are merely victims of war. The same kind of victims as those "haggies" who die in a split second here and there throughout the movie. Who cares what any of the Afghanistani victims wanted to buy for their girlfriends as a birthday present? On the other hand, who the heck cares about that stupid horse? Yes, we got it, this guy will be the first to die. And the cute rookie boy will also die pointlessly, it's also obvious from the moment he shows up on screen.
There is nothing this movie can provide for its viewers' improvement. It's a hypocritical, dull war movie, regardless that it's based on real events. The acting is excellent, but there is little to excel in characters who merely shoot, fight, stab and roll down hills. I give it though, the fight scenes are masterfully scripted and executed. But that's why we have Hollywood.
I would like to see the same movie from a Taliban fighter's viewpoint. They may be assholes, but they were fighting the same war. I am sure their families were mourning after the battle too.