This movie tries so hard to be sad, and fails in every way. Incredibly predictable, cliche and boring. I found myself skipping through about a fourth of the movie. Every scene where Mike is just sitting screaming with slow piano played over it, and when people were walking in the distance.
This movie feels like it was written by a group of preschoolers. From the start I knew it was going to be bad. A sniper and spotter scouting out an area for 3 months and 9 days to find nothing but a marriage out in the open? And then to be ordered to inflict casualties in order to kill a dude who has no affirmative identification? Every event after is increasingly more inane than the last.
Nobody is going to talk about how a dude survived over three days in the desert, being attacked by a pack of dogs, being shot at least three times, and still has the circulation to keep a limb alive without movement for that long? Then he is walking again and can propose to his soon-to-be wife before a scratch on his cheek can heal?
Not to mention the sub-par acting from pretty much everyone. Tom (Mike's spotter) seemed like he Kirk Lazarus from Tropic Thunder. An actor playing an actor: conversations were over exaggerated and almost comical. he could not pay attention to anything "mission critical" and was not able to play the role of a spotter in the slightest. Armie Hammer's performance was probably a spitting image of the script, and you can tell he did a good job performing it action by action because of how bad it was.
I've written enough to get my displeasure for this movie out. Sorry to anyone who bothered to read this far. Even describing this movie is worse than just not bothering with it at all.