Monday, September 23, 2024 11:56:13 AM | (Age Not Specified)
Filming the devastating affects of war on a local scale was good with good sets intertwined through the movie with actual war footage or scenes where the lead was actually over in the middle east taking pics of actual war. Good contrast to show fighting a foreign enemy and your own friends and neighbours. Some scenes are disturbing like hanging someone you know...which this really felt like The Purge. People clearly committing a LOT of war crimes. Executing your own compatriots! Shows everyday state militia or just towns people with guns do not have the discipline like if they were actually in the military. All in all, I was not sure who was bad or who was good or how this all came about. Maybe they just wanted to show the tail end of a civil war and it doesn't matter how they got there, but that this is what can happen? One interesting part is the town that was not ravaged by war. They clearly knew what was happening outside their town, and there were some that were ready, but they didn't get sucked into it and just want to keep living their lives. It was ok. A bit interesting the more I think about it.
Sunday, June 30, 2024 7:17:10 PM | (Age Not Specified)
I can't decide if the producers hate liberals, or conservatives, because they make both of them look like idiots.
For the main characters in the movie, you just dislike every one of them and if they die or get shot, I cheer.
Trying to thread a line and subtly trying to make it look like Trump would be a dictator is ridiculous and now I see it obvious, it's liberal psyops Joseph Goebbels propaganda stuff.
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 12:00:59 AM | (Age Not Specified)
So many great stories out there to be told and this is not one of them. Not terrible, but not worth watching either. It simply has nothing to say. Forgettable. The only scenes worth watching are the pseudo-militias determining who lives and who dies...for no particular rational reason. Spooky. Those are the ones that resonate. Otherwise, a much ado about nothing effort by the director and a boutique does-what-it-wants-when-it-wants studio. Underwhelming story that was supposed to tell the journalists side, and it kind of does a bit, but its not strong. Ultimately, it says little about nothing. Too bad!
Sunday, May 26, 2024 7:01:07 PM | (Age Not Specified)
An example of why Americans better get informed and perform their civic duty this November. DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY! The most divisive movie since the McCarthy trials in the 50’s. So disappointed in myself for being duped into watching this!
Monday, May 13, 2024 11:42:16 PM | (Age Not Specified)
The story is political no matter what they say. Journalists are not the heroes in real life and they aren't heroes in the movie. Very callous and agenda motivated individuals. There are a few shock scenes but most of it is far from what a real war would look like. I saw it, so I could either praise it or criticize it and as a war veteran I give it thumbs down. You have no back story on why there is a war except that the president has done what some news people say DJT will do if elected. So obviously it's political and he's the guy the journalists don't like. Go figure. It should be a multiverse movie because only there would Texas join forces with California.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 7:59:01 AM | (Age Not Specified)
This is one of the best war movies I've ever seen! It certainly is the one that feels closest to home, vs WWII or any other historic war movie. To all the low IQ people giving it 1 star because the movie doesn't explain all of the details about who is who and why the war started, etc, THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT! War DOESN'T make sense! During a war, people don't know what exactly is happening outside of snippets capture through photos or video clips, accompanied by whatever narrative the side they're hearing from wants to push. This movie is a WARNING! And an excellent one at that. War is not glorious. Everyone loses. If you want your typical good guy vs bad guy James Bond style nonsense, this movie IS NOT it. The one thing I didn't like is the young reporter using film rather than digital. I'd dock a star for that, but I'm giving this visceral film 5 stars to counter the fake and/or misguided 1 star reviews writen by folks that are too shallow to understand a film like this. If you're politically motivared, this movie won't give you the satisfaction of confirming your "us good, others bad" bias. This is probably what some trump supporters are looking for and giving unwaranted 1 star reviews as a result of not finding it here.
