"Targeting" tells the story of a young mother who returns from her service in the army home to her husband and her little daughter. Soon after her return she notices what seems to be a familiar face in her neighborhood and starts to track the man down who she thinks tricked her company into an ambush in the middle east.
The movie manages to create an atmosphere that is really hard to bear. Through good acting you can really relate with the husband who takes care of his daughter while having to deal with a wife that is caught somewhere between insanity and desperation. The events depicted in the film are not always super probable. It is, for example, at least surprising that the very first Arabian looking man she saw back in the states actually was involved into some illegal deal that makes him look even more suspicious. But I do believe that dealing with war is terrible and that it can lead to some pretty desperate and depressing situations. So in many aspects I see this film even better than my rating. What keeps me from doing so is the end. In my opinion it was just a bit too predictable and cheesy to have the daughter caught in the middle of a shooting (which was then also the second time already) and I simply do not believe that after an incident like that you just go back to normality and everything is just fine again.
All in all a lot was done rightly in this movie and it has a thrilling and in parts very serious story to tell. With a little less drama and even more realism this film could be really great.
The movie manages to create an atmosphere that is really hard to bear. Through good acting you can really relate with the husband who takes care of his daughter while having to deal with a wife that is caught somewhere between insanity and desperation. The events depicted in the film are not always super probable. It is, for example, at least surprising that the very first Arabian looking man she saw back in the states actually was involved into some illegal deal that makes him look even more suspicious. But I do believe that dealing with war is terrible and that it can lead to some pretty desperate and depressing situations. So in many aspects I see this film even better than my rating. What keeps me from doing so is the end. In my opinion it was just a bit too predictable and cheesy to have the daughter caught in the middle of a shooting (which was then also the second time already) and I simply do not believe that after an incident like that you just go back to normality and everything is just fine again.
All in all a lot was done rightly in this movie and it has a thrilling and in parts very serious story to tell. With a little less drama and even more realism this film could be really great.