I find myself conflicted with this movie. On one hand I have vivid memories of being in grade school, 4th or 5th grade to be exact, during Desert Storm. Most of those memories were thinking "yea, we Americans are bad-ass!" I don't think I even understood what Muslims were back then, except that they were terrorists and we needed to kill them (I kid you not) in order to be safe.
Now that I'm 28 and my little brother is a combat medic in Iraq I'm acutely aware of the situation in the Middle East. Because of that I found the first half hour to be irritating for no real reason, and the village scene was like a (welcome) reality check for the movie, despite the comical sound effects in the slow-motion gun battle. From there on out I was pleasantly surprised with the direction the plot went.
Really makes me wonder what kind of movies will be made about the Iraq War 10 a decade from now.
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