Interesting idea, but not that well carried out.
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I walked out of the cinema just wanting to ask a lot of questions
1) Why didn't they interview any of the soldiers? If you are firing on someone, you will know if they were armed or not. Trust me, you will. Or at least one guy in an entire platoon should have an opinion on it. But the soldiers just didn't have a clue 2) If the colonel was such an experienced soldier, why didn't he just follow the rules of engagement? What was the reason he did not warn the crowd before firing on them? 3) How could the snipers miss at that distance? With all that firing, how could they just hit three marines. I could have shot them all when they ran around on that roof and I have 12 months of military service. 4) That little girl actually fired at the marines - I simply do not believe it 5) If you are a person in an armed crowd and you see a platoon of marines taking position to fire at you, would you just stand in the middle of a square and fire blindly at a roof... I DON'T THINK SO!!!! If all yemenites are such killers, wouldn't they know how to take cover? 6) Whatever happened to the snipers? As soon as the Marines started firing, the snipers simply disappeared...?
And as a final point, this movie was plainly very, very rascist. Yemenites should object a lot and I don't think it will be a hit in Yemen or any arabic country. It will just spread the belief that Americans are crazy.
* SPOILER WARNING AHEAD *
I walked out of the cinema just wanting to ask a lot of questions
1) Why didn't they interview any of the soldiers? If you are firing on someone, you will know if they were armed or not. Trust me, you will. Or at least one guy in an entire platoon should have an opinion on it. But the soldiers just didn't have a clue 2) If the colonel was such an experienced soldier, why didn't he just follow the rules of engagement? What was the reason he did not warn the crowd before firing on them? 3) How could the snipers miss at that distance? With all that firing, how could they just hit three marines. I could have shot them all when they ran around on that roof and I have 12 months of military service. 4) That little girl actually fired at the marines - I simply do not believe it 5) If you are a person in an armed crowd and you see a platoon of marines taking position to fire at you, would you just stand in the middle of a square and fire blindly at a roof... I DON'T THINK SO!!!! If all yemenites are such killers, wouldn't they know how to take cover? 6) Whatever happened to the snipers? As soon as the Marines started firing, the snipers simply disappeared...?
And as a final point, this movie was plainly very, very rascist. Yemenites should object a lot and I don't think it will be a hit in Yemen or any arabic country. It will just spread the belief that Americans are crazy.