Good entertainment/ Questionable Reality

Rating: 8/10 (1 January 2014)

Undoubtedly, the real life characters that this movie is based upon are real hero's. My only issue with these sort of Invincible Warrior genres are the theatrics of the hero's absorbing multiple gun wounds while the antagonists get felled with one shot. Similarly, the tumbling over cliff sequences belie the reality of what this would actually do to your spines/necks and internal organs, let alone the ability to continue the fight. Also, the idea of 100's of antagonists vs the probable reality of some accounts suggesting that maybe there were 8-10 antagonists, takes away from the invincibility idea. As a propaganda tool with recruiting benefits, these sort of films are no doubt successful, but the reality of what flesh can take is borne out by the sad consequence that many brave men actually died from operation Red Wings. At least the film didn't whitewash this fact.