Sunday, January 31, 2016

JARHEAD 3

http://dl.free.fr/getfile.pl?file=/BPzJq0mq
REVIEWED
How different has the Jarhead franchise become. This is its 3rd outing. Can't remember if I've seen the 2nd one but I remember the 1st one with Jake Galleyhall. Well it was a classic war sort of movies. Cant remember much as it was quite sometime ago. But it was about this marine that was posted to safeguard Kuwait oil fields after Iraq pulled off. Not much fighting, just surveillance kind of movie.

But this one is something like "Black Hawk Down", a lower ranking achievement of a movie of course, about a rescue mission and with shots fired all over the places non stop after 1/4 of movie had passed. Familiar faces was Scott Adkins who did show his martial arts stuffs and Dennis Hysbert who came in too late to join the action.

This movie has got nothing to shout about. On the education side of it, you may know one or two things on what a US embassy would do whenever something like this happen. This one showed that they must safeguard or destroy the IT material before it fell in the wrong hands. But I wonder why there are so much of it contained in servers and in hard disk drives. In this day and age, dont they use Clouds ?{"What cloud?" Rocky in Creed whilst looking up at the sky!)

Now one very glaring flaw I see was the Helo that came for the rescue with Hysbart in it. I am pretty sure that was a toy or perhaps a drone of some kind. Could be because of budget issue maybe. The other thing is why will it take 1 hour for a safe rescue to come and with only 1 Helo ? That to me is bad protocol.

The shots fired are much too much. And the flow of ISIS guys are non stop which is a wonder where they came from in the first place. The ratio of ISIS got killed compared to the US personnel and marine is something like 1:20 ? Which is very high indeed. One good message being delivered was right before Security guard Mohammad being shot. What he said that Khalid (?) cause is wrong in the eyes of God.

Like my comment on the recent war movie "Hyena Road" which is about Canadian soldiers, this one has all the over the top action and USA is great and invincible stuff they are the hero and the foes are the villains.

Perhaps if the director have put some slow mo and freeze action once in a while in this movie, it would have been better. Also let the music be current and not orchestra performed and also not all the time. Just to keep the pacing slow or freeze for a while. But if one is looking for some mindless shooting and each blood spurt excites, this is one for you. It will not fail to excite.

Be sure to watch the closing credits. It shows what happened to a few of those involved in the seige.

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