Pro-American Gung-ho Claptrap

Rating: Null/10 (8 February 2011)

I bought this film thinking it would be a reasonably balanced view of what it might be like to be out in Iraq fighting a guerilla war. Instead I was grossly disappointed in what turned out to be a flimsy film capitalising on a antti-Islam and pro-Western patriotism, purveying as a docudrama.
The good guys (Americans) and the bad guys (Iraqis), how they kill each other and how they deal with it. I was appalled at the insensitivity in this film. I have travelled in the Middle East and I find it quite insulting that the Muslims are portrayed as murdering barbarians who cannot be trusted, have no morality, and are only self-satisfying merchants of death. It is well known amongst independent travellers to the region of the Middle East that the peoples of that land are amongst the most generous, honest, sensitive and loving cultures, and I as a white British man (of 38 years of age) would like to say that this film is typical of the the unthinking victim of the politics of fear.
This makes me sad.