I recently got a chance to see this at a screening and it is surprisingly excellent. I say surprisingly because I never expect too much from a film I know isn't going to be released in theaters, so I figured it would be another addition to the saturated war film DVD market. Not at all. It reminded me a lot of the slow tension builds of The Hurt Locker and Lone Survivor, where the audience knows action is coming, but the character build up allows us to care about the team members who come under fire once the fighting begins.
The actors are all quite good, with a special nod given to Bokeem Woodbine, Danielle Savre and Cole Hauser. The team has a great rapport and the humor is sprinkled in in appropriate doses. While not all of the jokes are hit their mark exactly, the lines delivered by Woodbine are laugh out loud funny, which helps lighten the mood in a film that has an incredible amount of heart.
Well done all around, and proof that not all great films make it to the big screen.
The actors are all quite good, with a special nod given to Bokeem Woodbine, Danielle Savre and Cole Hauser. The team has a great rapport and the humor is sprinkled in in appropriate doses. While not all of the jokes are hit their mark exactly, the lines delivered by Woodbine are laugh out loud funny, which helps lighten the mood in a film that has an incredible amount of heart.
Well done all around, and proof that not all great films make it to the big screen.