Great Action Flick- saw it first at Embassy Baghdad

Rating: Null/10 (20 November 2011)

I am probably a bit biased about this movie, because I saw it first on a screen set up behind the US Embassy in Baghdad, when I was stationed there in the spring of 2007. That's when the Embassy was at the old Presidential Palace, and the screen was behind the pool, right below the route helicopters took to fly in to the CSH (Combat Support Hospital), that was just beyond the walls of the compound. So in the scene toward the end, where helicopters are swooping down on Wahlberg as he is going after the bad guys, we had actual Blackhawks flying overhead, providing real 3D sound effects. (Of course, we had them throughout the movie, whether there were helicopters in the movie or not!) But I do remember this to have been a great movie in the Clint Eastwood formula: Good guy is placed into situation by bad guys, bad guys try to kill him, good guy gets away, and after being on the run for a while, brings down awesome justice on the bad guys.
Well done!(and thanks to the movie's producers for providing a print for us to view in Baghdad, in 2007, when it was a first run movie!)