This movie doesn’t bother with story or character development it all. It is all about dropping the viewer in the middle of the violence of combat.
The set up is a home invasion of an apartment complex done by the US Navy Seals, who then proceed to capture and imprison the families and lock them into a single bedroom.
The seals then destroy the various apartments, to set up what is called an OP. Very quickly one of the cartels/street gang that the US was fighting in Afghanistan attack.
The insanity and danger of combat is where this movie shines. The explosions are in your face, the guttural howls of pain by the SEALS who have their legs shattered by IED blasts are sickening. The force of the US jets as they do low level fly byes are unreal. You feel the high power weapons and what they do to a human body. You get an up close and personal view of what a land mine does to a human body.
The movie didn’t portray anyone as a hero or having a noble purpose… until the post credit scenes, and then it does just that.
True to form with many Alex Garland products this movie is great until the very end and then it just undermines itself.
Same thing he did with 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Annhilation.
This movie doesn’t bother with story or character development it all. It is all about dropping the viewer in the middle of the violence of combat.
The set up is a home invasion of an apartment complex done by the US Navy Seals, who then proceed to capture and imprison the families and lock them into a single bedroom.
The seals then destroy the various apartments, to set up what is called an OP. Very quickly one of the cartels/street gang that the US was fighting in Afghanistan attack.
The insanity and danger of combat is where this movie shines. The explosions are in your face, the guttural howls of pain by the SEALS who have their legs shattered by IED blasts are sickening. The force of the US jets as they do low level fly byes are unreal. You feel the high power weapons and what they do to a human body. You get an up close and personal view of what a land mine does to a human body.
The movie didn’t portray anyone as a hero or having a noble purpose… until the post credit scenes, and then it does just that.
True to form with many Alex Garland products this movie is great until the very end and then it just undermines itself.
Same thing he did with 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Annhilation.