Everyone who read the book will be greatly disappointed

Rating: 3/10 (23 August 2019)

The book is a masterpiece. I've read it in a couple of hours. I just couldn't put it down.
After I've read it, I was so excited to watch the movie only to be disappointed. I actually skipped a few scenes near the end. That's how bad it was.
It seems to me that Peter Berg is the one to blame. The screenplay is so awful that even experienced and proven actors looked like amateurs.
Michael Murphy is such a weak character as opposed to the book. The viewer gets the impression that Marcus is the most experienced one in the team which was not so. In the book he is the guy who keeps shooting at the enemy with multiple gun wounds to his neck, stomach, hand...
The only character that is close to the book is Axe. That's exactly how I pictured him.
There's a section in the book after Murph goes to make a call and gets shot multiple times, he screams for help which haunts Marcus to this day. That's such a powerful moment and they left it out...
The first encounter with the Talibans should have been displayed more dramatic. When I was reading this part in the book, I got chills. Marcus says that he saw hundreds of Taliban soldiers coming their way. In the movie you can see a couple of them sneaking up through the forrest. The director missed a chance to present to the viewer in what kind of situation they found themselves in. It should have been a chilling moment like for example in The Platoon with Charlie Sheen (the final battle) or Lord of the rings: Two towers (battle at Helm's deep). The viewer must sense their fear in this moment and I couldn't care less.
The only thing that was portrayed better than I expected was falling down the hill. That was pretty realistic! I could sense their pain...
And just a note to all those who are writing about how unrealistic the battle was. You must understand that Navy SEALS are freaking lunatics. I watched a documentary about their training and in the end of the infamous hell week, around 30 men, that were left, were laying in the freezing water. It was early morning, still dark and the instructor said to the camera - "There's no point of leaving them any longer in the water. No one is going to quit now. At this point they would rather die than quit..."
Now you take that kind of men and train them to fight. Keep in mind that USA is the country that is constantly in some kind of war since it was created. So they have the experience and we all know that they have the money too.
In the end you have natural born warriors that were trained by most experienced warriors in the world and you put them against a bunch of village people that were shepherds before someone gave them an AK-47.
The Talibans are no match for them in combat. End of story.