In 2005, actor Jake Gyllenhaal starred in the grounded cinematic depiction of war that was Jarhead. A darkly humorous yet haunting film, it stripped away genre thrills to place us right in the midst of what could be an equally mind-numbingly boring and brutal tour of duty that most other movies would seek to gloss over.
Some of this is to highlight the way a cruel bureaucracy moves slowly for those that it deems to be expendable, but that is only breached from a distance. No matter how much it believes itself to be saying something more, this is a film which is primarily about action that looks and feels like it could almost be a mobile game with effects that end up being as hollow as the narrative itself.
With that in mind, there are moments in this middle part of the film which are tense and well-constructed. Even a sequence where Ahmed and John must throw themselves down a steep incline carries with it a sense of grim terror as either getting seriously injured could be the end.
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