1. Vincent Gallo plays a Taliban fighter. Aren't there any Afghan or Pakistani, even non-American, non-white actors available for this kind of role?
2. Gallo's role in part glorified The Taliban. Aren't they irredeemable?
3. Gallo didn't say ANYTHING in the movie. I don't mean he didn't say anything important. He didn't have any dialog, in Pashto, Urdu, English, or any other language.
It starts, and finishes quite abruptly. Gallo The Taliban springs a solo ambush on a small group of US soldiers in a dusty ravine in Afghanistan. He's captured, blindfolded and transferred to somewhere cold and snowy in central Europe, where he's tortured and escapes. That's all in the first 5 or 10 minutes.
The rest of the movie has him stumbling through forest and field, with the occasional grunt or yelp, as he tries to make good his escape.
To counterpoint the 3 main negatives, he does look the part (let's face it, Vincent Gallo is not James Bond material), perhaps the world does need to see more of these conflicts from the other side, and the film was still very powerful, even with the only star keeping his heavily bearded trap shut throughout.
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