This is a great action movie ...... but ......
THIS MOVIE SUCKS MAJOR DONKEY BALLS!!!!
Sorry had to get that out of my system.
The year that I was deployed to Iraq, my unit was tasked with route clearance. Being as we wrote the book ok it the first time we were over seas. This deployment was a really easy one.
Our main mission was to drive the roads and find the IED's that these douche bags would plant, and try to kill us and the civilian populous. On a normal mission EOD would travel in our convoy and sit back and wait for us to give them the go ahead.
Now when you watch the movie you see them walking down the road, pulling random things out of the ground, waiving at people, and walking off base to do what ever they want. Ummmm.... yeah not going to happen!!
When people are sitting there watching you, and pulling out a camera to record you.... HELL NO!!! That prick would have had 30 rounds of a 50 cal coming at him in no time. And all his little buddies would be swiss cheese as well.
And then there is the VBID, vehicle born IED. Yeah there is no way any EOD tech would get close to those damn things! There is no way he is going to go in and try to disarm it. They would plant a charge and blow the hell out of it.
Same with the guy that was strapped with the IED. Sorry buddy but nobody is going to get close to him. The guy is going to, sadly, get shot. Then and only then would someone go out and take a look at what was strapped to him. And that would only be after they knew that nobody was around to set the damn thing off.
I am sorry, but after actually doing the things that they are showing in the movie, and working with both EOD as well as Private Contractors, or mercs what ever you want to call them.
I really hate movies like this, that try to make something that is a serious issue, and a very dangerous job. And make it look like it is nothing. I am sorry, but there is no way a person like that is ever going to stay alive for long if they acted like that. And I look at it as a slap in the face, to what we did for a year, and a slap in the face to any military person that has been deployed. As there isn't anyone that would act like that when not only their life, but the guy next to them is depending on them.
This movie should only be looked at as an action movie, and nothing more.