Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

If Jarhead was a subtle, slow-burning study of the Middle Eastern occupation through the eyes of a grunt, Jarhead 2 is the complete opposite. It's an entertaining if dumb action flick but has very little in common with reality or common sense.Ambushed on a supply run, a team of marines switches their mission object to keep an Afghan woman out of the hands of Taliban with the help of Cole Hauser's NAVY Seal.The acting is fine and the action is well shot, if totally preposterous with overkill.I can't claim to have served in conflict, but I'm pretty certain soldiers on both sides wouldn't frequently waste RPG's just to blow up one person armed only with a gun, instead of disabling vehicles and such, for which these weapons are designed. A lot of the action pieces seemed designed for cinema gore effects only and pretty much took me out of the reality that the rest of the film worked hard to achieve. As did a point after a gun fight where the soldiers opt to walk to their destination through hostile territory, instead of commandeering the Taliban cars.It wasn't the worse movie, and for the most part was exciting enough to hold my attention, but it could have been a lot better had it not been for nonsensical movie tropes that burst the bubble.

When I first saw that there was going to be a sequel to Jarhead I already felt disappointed, I was a huge fan of the first movie and did not feel it ever needed a sequel. Hearing that it was action in this movie made me even worse as one of the main themes of the first Jarhead was the lack of action. However I must say after watching this I would say I was pleasantly surprised and do not feel it soiled the Jarhead name like one of those sequels that makes fans pretend it never happened. It started off slow and uninteresting. I thought the main character himself was quite underdeveloped but once this movie gets going you do start to care for these characters. I think the main character could have been a lot more human than just being a marine as I couldn't relate to him. Warning lots of Hu-Rah's and Hell Yea's.The script itself could have done with a little more polishing with some scenes feeling they could have had more of an impact but there is some intense scenes in this movie which is what I like in an action movie. There was one or two cliché moments but aside from that this was a pretty strong movie. It carried some important messages about how bad situations build great bonds. It also has the sort of Saving Private Ryan "How can one person be so important" cliché. It still pulls it off though. So go into this with an open mind unlike me. Go in and just have a good time with this.I personally don't mind if more Jarhead movies come out now as long as they all carry different messages and they are made to be stand alone movies.

The attack on the Forward Operating Base was pathetic. Who builds a FOB in a valley surrounded by hills? And who prioritizes offloading water and other supplies DURING an attack? I stopped there. Sorry.I've watched many military movies and read a lot of memoirs and historical accounts, I've gotten a sense of what should be and what should not be.This movie started off as being quite inaccurate. Sorry. I just wasn't in the mood to finish after my bad experience of watching the first Jarhead, which I consider NOT worth watching. The first Jarhead had a mood that make you think being a Marine had no redeeming values, which I don't believe for a second.

Sometimes there are patches when you get bored in a movie however this movie was quite action packed and there was a few scenes that surprised me. As you normally can predict who lives and who dies.totally different from the first one, which I felt was a little boring and not as action packed. I like the part where the Seal joins in and said that Afghanistan is the hardest army to defeat in the world.Which has some truth to it and it also goes into the lives of what some of the afghan army are really thinking and what its its kind of like to be one, which is you don't see a lot of.I would say this movie is a lot closer to reality than other war movies where everyone is jumping into live bullets (indispensables) and where the opposing army can't shoot or hurt their enemy.However they could have done a little more in that regards as there still appears to be too much cowboys even though they touched on that one scared soldier.