Sloooooow

Rating: 1/10 (10 September 2009)

I saw the amazing scores this movie was getting everywhere and promptly went to watch it. Why are the critics loving it so much? Is it because they could easily watch another movie simultaneously and not miss a single event of this movie? I guess pentagon paid them of because according to this movie the money is apparently not spend on reprimanding team leaders that recklessly endanger their men. What I do know is that this movie is soooo slow. So much time spend slowly panning the camera and looking at the same scene. Nothing seems to happen for hours at a time. I've read that some people liked the "action". For an American movie and a bomb centered one at that there is a surprisingly few explosions or action in general. I believe you see four explosions if you count the 2 training explosions that they set off in the desert. Everything just happens sooo slowly. I realize this might be what defusing bombs is ideally like (slow). But my god is it boring. Zero suspense. Most movies have so much content that they make a directors cut with all the stuff they just couldn't squeeze into the film. This one has so little content it might be remade as an episode of CSI Iraq and still retain all content. I like the cereal scene though =)