Not a Best Picture winner, but it's fine

Rating: 6/10 (18 May 2020)

POSITIVES:
1) Anthony Mackie's performance is incredible, he was robbed of an Oscar nomination
2) There are multiple scenes of nail biting tension
3) The three main characters are very well fleshed out
NEGATIVES:
1) The ending didn't sit well with me at all. The entire film is counting down the days until Delta squad can leave their awful situation and yet Renner's character, who is already very unlikable due to his reckless decision making, decides that he loves war more than his family and as he returns to war a really upbeat rock song plays as if to say that James is cool and we should be cheering that he has abandoned his family???
2) The film only really gets going when Ralph Fiennes shows up which is almost an hour into the film
3) The two uses of extreme slow motion felt very out of place with the otherwise gritty and realistic tone of the film