I guess you could say that, in the end, they had a lot more left in the tank…
In all seriousness, I enjoyed this movie more than I would have if I had watched it before my military service. Maybe it resonates with me because I’m approaching my two-year anniversary since separating from active duty and I’m feeling sentimental, or maybe it’s because the cast is full of actors who appeal to young men with lizard brains, and I find myself being just that at times. It also helps that some of my all-time favorites, like Jon Bernthal and Logan Lerman, are in it, and I don’t see them as often as I’d like. If I’m being generous to myself, I saw a lot of myself in Staff Sergeant Don “Wardaddy” Collier. Leading men in a military unit in the final days of the global war on terror—when you’re not really preparing for war but instead trying to help them grow as people—was hard enough. I can’t imagine what it must have felt like to lead men in the face of certain death.
Everyone in this film delivers a great performance, and David Ayer once again proves he knows how to make a film for the boys. All in all, a solid war film, but maybe watch Band of Brothers instead for something a little more uplifting and historically accurate.
I guess you could say that, in the end, they had a lot more left in the tank…
In all seriousness, I enjoyed this movie more than I would have if I had watched it before my military service. Maybe it resonates with me because I’m approaching my two-year anniversary since separating from active duty and I’m feeling sentimental, or maybe it’s because the cast is full of actors who appeal to young men with lizard brains, and I find myself being just that at times. It also helps that some of my all-time favorites, like Jon Bernthal and Logan Lerman, are in it, and I don’t see them as often as I’d like. If I’m being generous to myself, I saw a lot of myself in Staff Sergeant Don “Wardaddy” Collier. Leading men in a military unit in the final days of the global war on terror—when you’re not really preparing for war but instead trying to help them grow as people—was hard enough. I can’t imagine what it must have felt like to lead men in the face of certain death.
Everyone in this film delivers a great performance, and David Ayer once again proves he knows how to make a film for the boys. All in all, a solid war film, but maybe watch Band of Brothers instead for something a little more uplifting and historically accurate.
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