Irritatingly Dumb


I like action movies. I can suspend my disbelief as well as the next fan and ignore the silly plots, the wooden acting, the unconvincing pyrotechnics. So when I see a tank shoot a shell that bursts into red and orange flame and black smoke, I know that is just jellied gasoline from the prop department and not high explosive. Hand grenades do not leave a flammable residue burning atop the water, etc. That is Hollywood.
This movie has too much stupidity in it for me. Delta Force soldiers go into action with body armor, weapons, etc. but nobody wears a helmet (I know, so their faces can be seen). Five guys with pistols take out dozens of guys with automatic weapons. A sniper cannot hit a target at a mere 149 yards even with a scope, etc.

Then at the finale, they are trying to stop the missile. The hero literally hangs on a rope around doing nothing for precious minutes as the countdown proceeds. He dithers over which wire to cut instead of simply smashing all the exposed delicate electronics or dropping a grenade into the rocket engine or shooting the rocket up or destroying the frame work that hold it pointed at its target. He and his dying buddy reminisce and chit chat instead of focussing on the task at hand, which is to save the world. Another dying man faces an enemy who is busy reloading his own weapon. Instead of pitching the two grenades in his hands at the bad guy, he declaims his dying statement, twice no less. By this time the bad guy has reloaded and cut loose with another burst. Despite eight or nine bullets in him, the guy throws the grenades.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.

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