Sick Product of a Sick System

Lack of good storyline.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Having served this film is often too painful to watch (the reason for my giving it a 9/10). It expresses the suffering and comradeship of warfare. This isn't just a film it's an education for a society disassociated from war. For those critics war isn't glorious or romantic. It's dirty and boring, and yes, people screw up. If you're stuck in a minefield without all the Gucci kit it's a bayonet and you're belt buckle, and it's hot and tiring and you make mistakes. Soldiers (at least the Toms) don't speak received English (so maybe you might have to pay more attention to what is being said)and yes they swear, live with it! There are plenty of wonderful war films where the (usually American) protagonists win the day with either a fashionable injury or glorious death; this isn't one of them. There is however humour and pathos in war and this expressed in loads. If everyone knew what war was really like nobody would want anything to do with one.

The film is definitely very, very realistic; and that is what makes it very, very boring. With all respect for the real victims of that action, I am still bound to review a movie, and the paradox is that the movie pays a big price to hyper-realism; essentially, you see three men jumping on three mines on a goat track at the bottom of a valley in Afghanistan, and you then spend a hour and half watching them suffer, bleed, scream. The camera indulges very often in very realistic and crude close up of truncated legs, arms, fingers and various injuries. The reality of the action must have been absolutely dramatic, and the courage of some of the soldiers remarkable; unfortunately, this does not make a good movie.

I found this movie quite silly, let me start out with the things that i really liked about this movie.-First, i absolutely loved the scenery, beautiful setting and well thought out location. -I like the authenticity of the accents. Yes, granted they where difficult to understand being such thick accents, however i felt that this really added to my enjoyment of the movie - I liked the characters, had some interesting characters each with their own individual traits. now the things i didn't like that made this movie quite silly.-the biggest thing that i found bothered me in this movie, is that it nearly entirely takes placed in a ravine-Landmines are the bad guy in the movie-SEND MORE PEOPLE INTO THE LANDMINE PIT, they didn't learn their lesson the first two times. -their non functioning radio is a major plot piece, and it doesn't really do anything other than cause frustration and more delay to the story.-soldiers lay there on the ground in the minefield and have lengthy conversations while waiting for either another land mine or help to arrive. these conversation moments are drawn out and quite boring. Overall, I would say that I still did somewhat enjoy this movie, but mostly for the scenery and the characters. If you really don't have anything better to watch then i would say give it a try, but otherwise you can give it a pass and you wont be missing much other than landmines.

I was recommended this by a fellow ex-serviceman as I'm usually pretty weary of this stuff. It is a little bit slow to start. (But then life in the Army can be like that.) Then it go's wrong spectacularly quickly. (Life in the Army can definitely be like that.) If you haven't served in the British forces you might not get this film, at one point I was sat quietly crying when a guy spat out a one liner that had me in creases. I won't go in to the old "them and us" bit, comparing British soldiers to American soldiers, suffice to say that these guys are very understated hero's. No hullabaloo, no histrionics just guts and above all a camaraderie that cannot be replicated anywhere else. But don't take my word for it, judge for yourself. Please.