When a movie as seriously flawed as this one wins, you know the integrity of the Oscars is dead. Dead.
Bad script. Bad character development. Totally ridiculous plot lines worthy of a B movie. Artificially drawn out encounters with suspicious people to ramp up tension. Repeated ad nauseum.
Silly.
The three soldiers depicted in this movie: One adrenalin junkie nut case, one uptight control freak, and one clueless junior team member caught between the first two. They're unrealistically isolated from the rest of the Army and seem to define and riff their own missions, completely detached from any type of command structure that everyone else in the military deals with. I think there are two officers in the entire movie, both colonels: One gung-ho Rambo type, the other a genteel psychologist, who practically wears a sign on his back: "I'm a hopeless stereotype, please martyr me somewhere in the middle of the movie." Otherwise, I guess the Army forget to deploy any lieutenants or captains to Iraq, because the bomb squad didn't seem to be taking orders from anyone.
On and on it goes, one implausible situation after another. The more I reflect on this movie, the more I dislike it, and the more upsetting it is that the movie received the most prestigious award Hollywood gives itself.
Bad script. Bad character development. Totally ridiculous plot lines worthy of a B movie. Artificially drawn out encounters with suspicious people to ramp up tension. Repeated ad nauseum.
Silly.
The three soldiers depicted in this movie: One adrenalin junkie nut case, one uptight control freak, and one clueless junior team member caught between the first two. They're unrealistically isolated from the rest of the Army and seem to define and riff their own missions, completely detached from any type of command structure that everyone else in the military deals with. I think there are two officers in the entire movie, both colonels: One gung-ho Rambo type, the other a genteel psychologist, who practically wears a sign on his back: "I'm a hopeless stereotype, please martyr me somewhere in the middle of the movie." Otherwise, I guess the Army forget to deploy any lieutenants or captains to Iraq, because the bomb squad didn't seem to be taking orders from anyone.
On and on it goes, one implausible situation after another. The more I reflect on this movie, the more I dislike it, and the more upsetting it is that the movie received the most prestigious award Hollywood gives itself.