This could have been the best action movie I've ever seen.
Could've been, but wasn't.
Sporting what has been advertised as a cast "made up of active service men and women", it felt like it. Because no-one could act. Not only could they not act, they couldn't talk properly. Not that real actors playing soldiers speak properly. Actors would talk gruffly, indistinctly, desperate to sound soldier-like. Real soldiers apparently, talk gruffly, but very distinctly, and from a soldier's hand-book.
Forgetting the cast, the action was non-stop. Absent were the blowhard commanders, organizing operations from their bunkers. Interestingly, at the same time that I was marveling at the equipment on display when running down a drug lord off the coast of Mexico - the multi-million dollar armored boats chasing a multi-million dollar power boat bearing the aforementioned baddie - Pavey was saying to herself that she thought the Navy Seals would be more tricked out with spy-type gadgetry.
So why wasn't it the best action movie I've ever seen? Well, in pursuing "reality", they forgot the story structure, and the logic required to round out that story. I don't have to be explicit about those details. Watch it and you can make your own mind up.
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