I thought it was a good movie. I hesitate to say I enjoyed it or liked it as seeing a dramatization of what those guys endured, enjoyment is an inappropriate term, just like no one enjoys Schindler’s List unless you are unbalanced.
The complaints that it was not in depth enough and that it did not delve into politics is off base in that the movie is simply about what these guys endured. When you are fighting, it is not about yesterday or politics, it is about the here and now and, or then and there, so in that sense, I thought that was good. The movie is exhausting, if you follow it closely.
At about the halfway point, when they started requesting help and none came, and when you see our country’s defenders dying, I started hearing Clinton’s voice, the echo became louder as the film progressed; “At this point, Senator, what does it matter.” What an arrogant, evil, bitch.
I was so incensed, that at the end of the movie I repeated the Clinton quote loudly in the theater and said “Think of these men before you vote.” Having that at the end of the movie would have made it perfect.
Someone said that at the end of the movie where I was too.
But, that comment would have made it “political” .. and the producer was committed to not making it political; his stated goal.
I believe that’s why the movie is so powerful.
When she’s in prison, they should make her watch it, every day. And send a letter per month to the families of the victims for the rest of her miserable life.