Man, so much potential.
Dare I say it, based on the cast and crew alone: best movie of the year potential.
And there's definitely a lot of good in it.
This movie is one of the few examples that teaches us how to get action filmmaking right.
The cinematography, the editing, the locations and their atmosphere, the action scenes, the tension and the soundtrack are all great.
On the other hand, it's simply not that special, because it follows exactly the formula you'd expected from a film like this.
And that's a shame, because it wasn't necessary.
The interesting stuff is in there, but it never gets the attention that it should:
- there's an interesting social angle (military soldiers breaking bad because they didn't feel they got the respect they deserved), but they don't play it up enough.
- there's a fantastic cast, and they all do a good job, but they're not given the dialogue or character development to make something special out of it.
In fact, only two people in the film feel like actual human beings (Affleck and Isaac), but they don't get nearly enough development to make them feel like fully fleshed out characters.
Also, the third act drags.
And finally, I don't quite know if I liked the ending. A part of me found that they handled out of character, another part of me liked the fact that they did something different.
5.5/10
Review by ThralrBlockedParent2019-03-15T21:19:27Z
That crap is the proof that Netflix became Hollywood bullshit for quite some time now.
That are so many things wrong with that movie, the geographic references are all wrong, Brazilian culture does not look at all like the representation in that shitty movie, they put on a traffic signboard saying they are getting in to Brazil by BR 471, that means they are getting in to Brazil by Uruguay, THERE ARE NO Amazon forest in Uruguay, it would be waaaaay easier to just go to the Atlantic form Uruguay instead of crossing the whole Uruguay and Argentina to get to Pacific by crossing the fucking the Andes from CHILE, not Peru, and they would never survive one single night in the Andes without alpinist gear, because its cold as shit, its just one of the highest places in the world.
As soon as they find the money, they lost it! they forget every single thing about being in a tactical situation like that, the throw their rifles back, they do not keep guard, they forget about CQB, they forget about the time planned AND they didn't even have sure that the house was actually empty, because they didn't clear it all!
And what about that hot piece of ass? just put a damn bullet on her head for fuck sake; doooone problem solved!
They burn money!! And fucking laugh about it!!!! FUCK NO! They did not applied the Pablo flex correctly!! hell no!
They would take weeks to cross the Andes after the chopper crash, especially with that many heavy bags of money, and they would actually die trying to do that, they do not seem to be anywhere near as tired as anyone in that altitude would be, especially carrying that much weight and for that much time.
And at the fricki'n end of the movie, Pope, the asshole who thought in going to that shitty place to do that shitty job, decides that he don wanna kill DRUG FUCKING DEALERS, because now he had a moral growth after seen his bitch ass friend dying like a girl, pleeeease, can somebody remember the writers that those fuckers were supposed to be SPEC OPS VETS??? WTF? He gives money, MONEY to a drug dealer, "get out of this life boy!!!", fuck that shit, kill that fucking worm, kill everybody, throw napalm in their houses, they are DRUG DEALERS, I really miss the days they Stallone a Schwarzenegger killed everything that moves and did not wear a Merica flag, fuck this moral horseshit about not killing criminals because "they are just kids", we all know that American soldiers have a special taste for blood!!
Like a guy has said in the earlier comments, this movie is the proof that good actors do not guarantee a good movie
Worst war/combat movie I ever watched, congrats, you just won the place of zero dark trinity, with a fuckin woman yelling shit to the seal team six, haha!
That movie should be a comedy!