If anyone has read my reviews to other war movies, you will quickly find that I really, REALLY hate when war movies fail to get the basic details correct. It's a sign that they don't care enough to get it right. It doesn't cost more to be correct, and I am dumbfounded as to why they would go through the huge trouble of making a war movie, only to get so many things wrong.
Portraying a USAF combat controller as a lost, panicky amateur that has apparently not ever expected to see on-the-ground contact... REALLY? This is downright disrespectful.
FYI, JTAC and PJ's are among the most highly trained, elite special forces in existence. These guys are trained in everything from SERE to sniper school, to advanced field medicine, counterintelligence, psychology, hand to hand combat, and anything you can imagine.
Their entire job is to embed with special forces... Rangers (Green Berets), MARSOC, Raiders, SEALS, Force Recon, even DEVGRU and Delta Force, and even operate with PJ's that go behind enemy lines to extract downed pilots.
Second, sending a 3 man team with one JTAC to a large, heavily defended COMPOUND for an extraction? You have got to be kidding me.
Third, calling a JTAC AIRMAN a soldier is incorrect. SOLDIERS refer to Army. Marines refer to Marine Corps, Airmen refer to Air Force, Seaman refers to Navy.
Fourth, all 4 of these muppets are out sitting on top of rocks, right out in the open, while there is abundant foliage cover just a couple meters behind them. Really? They would be in the freaking bushes, well concealed.
And I'll stop here, because I could be at this for hours. My wish is that filmmakers finally start to give a damn about getting war movies at least somewhat believable. There is no excuse for this!
Portraying a USAF combat controller as a lost, panicky amateur that has apparently not ever expected to see on-the-ground contact... REALLY? This is downright disrespectful.
FYI, JTAC and PJ's are among the most highly trained, elite special forces in existence. These guys are trained in everything from SERE to sniper school, to advanced field medicine, counterintelligence, psychology, hand to hand combat, and anything you can imagine.
Their entire job is to embed with special forces... Rangers (Green Berets), MARSOC, Raiders, SEALS, Force Recon, even DEVGRU and Delta Force, and even operate with PJ's that go behind enemy lines to extract downed pilots.
Second, sending a 3 man team with one JTAC to a large, heavily defended COMPOUND for an extraction? You have got to be kidding me.
Third, calling a JTAC AIRMAN a soldier is incorrect. SOLDIERS refer to Army. Marines refer to Marine Corps, Airmen refer to Air Force, Seaman refers to Navy.
Fourth, all 4 of these muppets are out sitting on top of rocks, right out in the open, while there is abundant foliage cover just a couple meters behind them. Really? They would be in the freaking bushes, well concealed.
And I'll stop here, because I could be at this for hours. My wish is that filmmakers finally start to give a damn about getting war movies at least somewhat believable. There is no excuse for this!