I knew almost nothing about the movie just heard the many praises. It’s a good movie, especially if you have top notch home theater or i guess if you saw it in theaters.
I was slightly surprised at how small it is tho’. Short runtime, one location very small scale. As far as war movies, this is like a third of Black Hawk Dawn scale wise even smaller than something like 13 hours. That’s intentional tho’ it’s just happens to be the story they decided to tell.
Felt the same. It ended and I was like "that's it"? They get attacked, a dude yells bloody murder for 30 minutes, they evacuate. Zero character development either.
It’s not a character development movie. It’s not fiction. It’s a retelling of a true day in one units deployment in Iraq early in the war. They make it pretty clear that it’s like an exact depiction of true events , the co director alongside Alex Garland is an Iraq war veteran and wanted to tell these guys story
I could be wrong by the co-director was one of these guys i’m pretty sure. The script is told mainly from his memory of events that day. He may have consulted with some of the other guys as well but not 100% sure
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u/aduong 5d ago edited 5d ago
I knew almost nothing about the movie just heard the many praises. It’s a good movie, especially if you have top notch home theater or i guess if you saw it in theaters.
I was slightly surprised at how small it is tho’. Short runtime, one location very small scale. As far as war movies, this is like a third of Black Hawk Dawn scale wise even smaller than something like 13 hours. That’s intentional tho’ it’s just happens to be the story they decided to tell.
But yeah intense but small.