Post by Harold of Whoa on Mar 23, 2019 2:07:34 GMT
Decent entertainment. Ben Affleck and the main dude from Sons of Anarchy are in it.
It seems at the beginning like it's going to be a straightforward heist movie - a close-knit group of retired US special forces soldiers get pulled in by their contractor buddy to do a job taking millions from drug lord. Then things get sticky.
The morality play that this movie tries to be doesn't really have a conclusion. Some major morally questionable actions have consequences, some never do...or more to the point, the people taking some of those actions never really feel the consequences. Rest assured, though, at some point you will be pissed at just about everybody for something they do or don't do, for some violence they are willing to carry out or refuse to carry out because they suddenly grew a conscience.
Interesting how this slipped past the intersectionality police. There's five white guys. For a while there's a Latina who's a drug informant that the contractor dude is banging. There's a bunch of Hispanic people who get shot in some South Americanish country to be named later (although there is one sign that says "Brasil", but everyone speaks Spanish, so it ain't Brasil.) The toxic masculinity inverted translates into 937 guy-on-guy macho hugs. Everybody calls everybody "brother", which is confusing because two of them are actual brothers.
Here is a pet peeve of mine from movies like this that I would like to add as a side note: being a skilled helicopter pilot is not a side gig; it is a main job specialty. There are people who do the combat infantry/special forces/small unit combat tactical stuff, and then there are pilots. Pilots in the military spend all there time maintaining proficiency as pilots, not being close combat specialists. It pisses me off when some dude in the combat soldier team just happens to be a pilot, like flying a helo was driving a HUM-V. Rambo did that same shit. It's dumb. You don't just plant a Russian-built MI-8 somewhere and have one of your soldiers from your old team fly it. Dumb.
It seems at the beginning like it's going to be a straightforward heist movie - a close-knit group of retired US special forces soldiers get pulled in by their contractor buddy to do a job taking millions from drug lord. Then things get sticky.
The morality play that this movie tries to be doesn't really have a conclusion. Some major morally questionable actions have consequences, some never do...or more to the point, the people taking some of those actions never really feel the consequences. Rest assured, though, at some point you will be pissed at just about everybody for something they do or don't do, for some violence they are willing to carry out or refuse to carry out because they suddenly grew a conscience.
Interesting how this slipped past the intersectionality police. There's five white guys. For a while there's a Latina who's a drug informant that the contractor dude is banging. There's a bunch of Hispanic people who get shot in some South Americanish country to be named later (although there is one sign that says "Brasil", but everyone speaks Spanish, so it ain't Brasil.) The toxic masculinity inverted translates into 937 guy-on-guy macho hugs. Everybody calls everybody "brother", which is confusing because two of them are actual brothers.
Here is a pet peeve of mine from movies like this that I would like to add as a side note: being a skilled helicopter pilot is not a side gig; it is a main job specialty. There are people who do the combat infantry/special forces/small unit combat tactical stuff, and then there are pilots. Pilots in the military spend all there time maintaining proficiency as pilots, not being close combat specialists. It pisses me off when some dude in the combat soldier team just happens to be a pilot, like flying a helo was driving a HUM-V. Rambo did that same shit. It's dumb. You don't just plant a Russian-built MI-8 somewhere and have one of your soldiers from your old team fly it. Dumb.