john Doe

I seem to be at odds with other reviewers. I watched this right after seeing ‘Journey’s End’ so it was easy to be disappointed. I like accurate true stories but I’m not sure how ‘true’ this portrayal is. I didn’t enjoy some of the the pointless dialogue. I always hate Petrol being used to sensationalise explosions. This film has a hyped up American TV Movie production feel about it, Hollywood’d, ie: don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story. As an ex serviceman I didn’t understand or see the point of firing a short range automatic weapon at troops hundreds of meters away, running about like a demented Rambo firing everywhere knowing that ammo is low. I don’t see a professional Soldier doing this. There was the Technical vehicle placed on its side in the exact flight path of the jet to shoot it down and the Senior Officer shot by a Sniper with a weapon that should have sent the bullet right through his shoulder, not easily dug out from the surface so he could carry on unaffected and to finish it off, the prolonged Salute at the end just as we’ve seen in other US Military films. There were so many annoying anomalies and Film Cliche’s but no one wants me to waffle on too long. I feel I still don’t know the truth of what happened at Jadotville. I feel someone decided that what actually happened and what these Soldiers went through wasn’t exciting enough.

Allow me to summarise this film, usual high quality CGI, unbelievable stunts, hot girl in very short ‘Pants’ screaming a lot and makes stupid comments like, “He drives Dad” but then I suppose young women don’t want a boyfriend who is a Doctors or Engineer these days, they want them to be a Red Bull driver or a Pro Gamer or a YouTuber. You have Transformers repeatedly saying, “I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you”, I’lll Killll Youuuu....”. Mark Wahlbergs confused about what film he’s in so he plays the same character he played in Shooter, Patriots day etc. Thankfully I fell asleep but awoke to the cry of “I’ll kill you”. At this point I switched off. Hopefully over time I’ll get over the 90 minutes of my life wasted watching this, thankfully I didn’t waste the three hours with ads to see it to the end. Not sure who the target audience is for this nonsense, too many threats to kill for young children and too inane for intelligent adults so I suppose you should watch this if you are a Red Bull driver, Pro Gamer or YouTuber.

Sadly the BBC has ruined the show with its ever expanding left wing Politically correct agenda. The show used to be about Aliens, Time and Space travel. Now it’s about promoting every type of minority believing that they need to educate the nation. There was no need to sexualise the characters, I am not interested. I lost interest a few years back when Lesbians began to appear then the dreadful Peter Capaldi who I stopped watching after the first episode. I wasn’t against a female Doctor but after two episodes I gave up. She’s just wrong for the part as is Bradley Walsh playing the part of whoever??? In the first two episodes all the heroes were either female, Black or Asian and the two wimps were white men. In the second episode the same and the white man was of questionable ethics it appeared and I switched off. I now hear that the Doctor will be a bi-sexual. What a load of nonsense and yet again we are forced to pay for it by a mandatory Licence fee. The Director General needs to resign not just because of this but the fiasco of their news reporting, the destruction of innocent peoples reputation and the ludicrous amount of pay given to the likes of Gary Lineker for talking about Football. The BBC is losing sight of it’s role to the majority and pandering to the minority. Left wing PC views and subtle brainwashing with anti Brexit views and imagary will ruin its reputation as a reliable and balanced organisation.