Good start, but then it gets ruined

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

So in this film, we got choppers from the carrier, their flying speed were almost the same as the super sonic fighter planes, those choppers reached the rescue area where the fighter planes just bombed minutes ago. So it would only become possible in a movie.When the African people of the clinic were informed that the butchering force was approaching and they must be evacuate right away, they didn't show any panic and when they moved out, they were still singing and chanting, it made me think that they were the happiest people in the chaotic world. And Dr. Lena would never button up her shirt to cover up her cleavage, no way, Jose', part of her breasts were one of the insurances for box office.

A veteran "Special-Ops commander" decides to defy direct orders and decides to take on a mission to save 70 odd refugees while putting his men's life at risk out of the blue. The rationale to take such a drastic decision is never fully explained.The commander also willfully interferes with internal politics of the country, by choosing to protect the son of the president son, from the rebel forces.This movie tries to brew a strange cocktail of human suffering and action and doesn't do a good job at either of them. A painful watch.

Movie is amazingly done. Bruce Willis aces again in his performance and the characters in the movie are very much likable. Yeah, we all know that movie like this is gonna go down with almost every character being a made-to-die kind of mannerism. But the intelligent characterization in this movie is none of the actors seemed to be too baffled with the problems and as the movie paces on, they accept a mission just for the order from mission leader and later get to grip on whats happening around in that place.This makes you feel so brutal, a Holocaust even in a mellowed down version will still look painful and the actors feel it. They are no way related to whats happening, they were in for a quick extraction mission but still when people are slaughtered they move from their Robot mindset to a more human perception, that right there will make you feel involved in the movie as much as the actors.The movie starts off very swiftly, and i was sure movies such as that will end in a rush, and it did. That's why i believe movie should take its time to pace in (Saving private Ryan, Black Hawk down, Hurt Locker) and then we might have a very surreal experience. I guess the director decided to end it just because he ran out of options, which is a bit cheesy.Monica bellucci should stick to modeling, i guess this part was one of her better ones, but still flat acting throughout, which is a let down. Overall, a good movie, not for the light-hearted.

Nigeria is in a state of chaos after a coupe. Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) and his team are sent to rescue Doctors Without Borders physician Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), a priest and two nuns. Kendricks refuses to leave the helpless villagers behind. The priest and the nuns stay behind, while Waters leads everybody on a walk to Cameroon. The Catholic mission is destroyed and everybody is massacred. Waters kidnaps Kendricks away on the helicopters while leaving the refugees behind. However when they fly over the destroyed village, Waters decides to return to help lead the villagers to safety. The group is relentlessly pursued by the rebel army.It's a functional drama that devolves into a blow-em-up action movie. It works as the former but not really the latter. The exodus is nightmarish and the massacres are brutal. I like the savagery because it fits the situation. Kendricks is way too naive. Bellucci is doing too much melodramatic acting. It would be much better to have a younger actress so her naivety wouldn't be so glaring. Willis is able to pull it back by giving the movie its reserved intensity. The Hawaiian jungle looks great and is a good substitute. The final battle is too big and too bombastic. Not only is it too unrealistic but it also takes away the grittiness of the rest of the movie. It's a lot of overdramatized unreasonable action. Dropping a few bombs on a mass of troops wouldn't kill them all, and it's highly doubtful that this 3rd world border has an insurmountable fence.