good movie, but over hyped

Rating: 8/10 (19 January 2010)

The best thing about this movie was Jeremy Renner. The writing for the character was great and I really enjoyed the fact that it did not try to take sides in terms of the war and only tried to show why these men do what they do. To me a great central character is key to a film and without this I think this would have been just another action movie. People were claiming that this had some of the most intense action I was never overwhelmed as I was expecting. This may have been a product of hype, but the action served a purpose to showing why this character is who he is and what he experiences. Some of the scenes were played too long and were not that exciting for me. I think they should have put some facts on what the human body does when in one of those suits and the fact that they are all volunteers. I really love the supermarket scene at the end. I think the sniper scene in the middle was nothing special and there was a smarter way of showing the team coming together more related to defusing bombs. The scene felt out of place and broke up the movie right in the middle. Also I do not think the scene when all three of them go down the alley was in line with the character. I do not think he would have put them in danger no matter how much he was losing it. I know it was supposed to be a weak character moment as a consequence of sneaking out of the base to do nothing, but it did not fit with me. There is a lot of good about this movie. I honestly do not think it is an Oscar contender, but it still was one of the better movies I saw this year. People should still watch this movie, but I feel as if a lot of people will like the superficial aspects of the movie which are emphasized instead of the character.