Without tanks or air support, a corporal and his team must muster all the courage and firepower they can to fight their way across war-torn Afghanistan and shepherd an important anti-Taliban... Read allWithout tanks or air support, a corporal and his team must muster all the courage and firepower they can to fight their way across war-torn Afghanistan and shepherd an important anti-Taliban woman to safety.Without tanks or air support, a corporal and his team must muster all the courage and firepower they can to fight their way across war-torn Afghanistan and shepherd an important anti-Taliban woman to safety.
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The interesting thing about the first Jarhead is that the guy struggled with a war which doesn't need him. This is almost an opposite premise. Chris can't wait to get out of the war that desperately needs him. I'm fine with a completely new premise for a completely new war. There is plenty of gunfire action which is more than what I expect from a TV movie. The realism is debatable and that's no small thing. I really question Kettner pulling Faisal off the garbage pile. It would be more real to run away and let the new Arab take the bomb blast if that's what he wants. That conflict between realistic and unrealistic never goes away. I'm sure others have different ideas. The kill ratio seems high. Several times, the guys wipe out the entire opposition. The final rescue mission seems unrealistic. I don't know why they didn't at least try the Taliban's trucks. The realism questioning goes on and on. It's not Rambo but it's not that far from it. Some of the masked Taliban fighters look white. At least, the setting looks good.
I have no military experience whatsoever but even I know that their base is badly situated. Found it difficult to take the rest of the film seriously.
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.
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.
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- TriviaA wilhelm scream is heard at 1:32 as a lone man falls down.
- GoofsWhen the marine fires a 40 mm grenade from his rifle directly on a nearby Taliban fighter at the village, it is not supposed to explode since the fuse becomes activated only after 40 yards as to protect crews from accidental firings.
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Chris Merrimette: A Story.
Chris Merrimette: A man has a lot of choices,
Chris Merrimette: and these choices made in life are rarely perfect.
Chris Merrimette: So he decides to sign a contract,
Chris Merrimette: because he want's to make a difference.
Chris Merrimette: He wants to save this world, make it a better place.
Chris Merrimette: The consequences are punishing,
Chris Merrimette: unforgiving,
Chris Merrimette: and he questions why he ever signed that contract.
Chris Merrimette: So what's the fucking point?
Chris Merrimette: I guess the point is responsibility of duty.
Chris Merrimette: Love of country.
Chris Merrimette: A way of life.
Chris Merrimette: Are we on the right side of this?
Chris Merrimette: These aren't our questions to ask.
Chris Merrimette: A Marine fights for the person standing next to him.
Chris Merrimette: He fights for the man who can't stand anymore.
Chris Merrimette: He fights so that others can have the opportunity to make a difference.
Chris Merrimette: That's how we make the unforgiving forgivable.
Chris Merrimette: And if we're lucky, somewhere in all the fighting and dying, we discover hope.
Chris Merrimette: And the Marines who killed and bled and died will always be jarheads.
Chris Merrimette: Their families will have to live with the unbearable demands of their ultimate sacrifice.
Chris Merrimette: And the ones who make it home, we never really leave our brothers behind.
Chris Merrimette: We always remember.
Chris Merrimette: We're professional fighting men. We are jarheads.
- Alternate versionsExists in an R rated and Unrated Version. The Unrated Version contains trivial male nudity in a shower scene and additional bullet wounds for a fallen Taliban fighter. There is no difference in running time.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Jarhead 3: The Siege (2016)
- SoundtracksHit em with a boom
by King Juju
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- Lính Thủy Đánh Bộ 2: Nằm Trong Tầm Bắn
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- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1