WTF are people complaining about?

I liked this movie

As a former soldier. I found the movie interesting. But totally implausable. Any unit might find itself in a day long battle. But no unit has ever stumbled and fumbled it's way through a DOZEN! ambushes losing only half it's number of personnel and then Liberating the very people that have been attacking and killing them all day long! This movie has little in it that shows anything about what the army is like in a war. Despite those flaws I was entertained for a little while.

I knew the movie was in trouble in the opening scenes where the humvee they are riding around in had no armor on it or even a roof. I finally stopped the movie after it took about 3 rpg hits to "disable" it.

Well... I was a soldier in Iraq and I thought this thing was a total turd. Unrealistic, poorly acted... I was glad I caught this thing on cable.

I have to agree with about everything you said. Though my past military service did not involve combat, my experience with military commands and the resulting injuries from combat do give me some authority besides just having been a viewer of many combat and battle films. As a retired physician, I thought the injury and treatment of those injuries was very well done.

I don't think this film was meant in any way to portray a factual day in this platoon's efforts. Instead I believe the writer's intent was to show many of the different possibilities and what is faced by our troops and the many different situations they find themselves in.

I did not find the acting all that bad as others have said. If any criticism is due there, I would say that putting a film in the can that could be viewed likely caused more noderation of actions and language than in the real battle situation.

I'm going to rent up this movie from blockbusters if they have it, because of that post.

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I've watched this movie twice now, once last year when I was instructing recruits and just now. The first time I thought it was good entertainment value but the acting was kinda ok. I don't expect much from war movies and good ones are hard to come by. The second time I watched it more in depth and realized that the scenery was very much like Toronto, Canada and upon further research found out it was filmed 1/2 hour outside of the city. Some things that gave it away were 1) the one way sign in the alley 2) some of the english graffiti, 3) green walls along the highway etc. I've been to the Middle East and the architecture there is very different from what can be seen in the movie. However, I don't think the director / writer intended for it to be about what you see on the screen. The purpose was more to show what goes on in the hearts and minds of these soldiers. But if they're going to film war movies in Canada and use Canadian actors, maybe they should do our Canadian military justice and create movies about them.