All politicians should see this harrowing film, before they casually commit our troops to harms way and death. To often they resort to the death and desruction option than exhausting non political alternatives A truly terrifying film, bringing home the realities of war, not like the American glorification of war

I've never seen a movie capture what it is to be a soldier better. British, American or whatever. Watch this - it's history not a film.There have been many films made about Afghanistan/Iraq over the last few years and they are all afforded a degree of Hollywood Licencing. The Hurt Locker being an excellent example, almost good but ruined by pandering to a less intelligent audience.If I was asked to describe what being a soldier is I could only ever point to this film. There is nothing there that is overdone or underdone. It just is what it is meant to be.

I found this movie quite silly, let me start out with the things that i really liked about this movie.-First, i absolutely loved the scenery, beautiful setting and well thought out location. -I like the authenticity of the accents. Yes, granted they where difficult to understand being such thick accents, however i felt that this really added to my enjoyment of the movie - I liked the characters, had some interesting characters each with their own individual traits. now the things i didn't like that made this movie quite silly.-the biggest thing that i found bothered me in this movie, is that it nearly entirely takes placed in a ravine-Landmines are the bad guy in the movie-SEND MORE PEOPLE INTO THE LANDMINE PIT, they didn't learn their lesson the first two times. -their non functioning radio is a major plot piece, and it doesn't really do anything other than cause frustration and more delay to the story.-soldiers lay there on the ground in the minefield and have lengthy conversations while waiting for either another land mine or help to arrive. these conversation moments are drawn out and quite boring. Overall, I would say that I still did somewhat enjoy this movie, but mostly for the scenery and the characters. If you really don't have anything better to watch then i would say give it a try, but otherwise you can give it a pass and you wont be missing much other than landmines.

This will grip you like King Kong gripping you while he bites your head off. Forget Hollywood. This a brilliant film made to the highest standards by a tiny company. The "characters" are real. Everything depicted is as it happened. Everything said is, more or less, what the soldiers actually said. As usual these days, some of the dialogue is hard to grasp at first, but persevere. Bear with the shocks and the tension. And the anguish. And the dismay. Then marvel at the courage, self-sacrifice & tenacity of our troops. And the heroism of certain Americans ('nuff said about them: I don't want to spoil it for you). Then get angry at the failure of our support systems.