Geordie

I went into this movie expecting so much more, I was hugely disappointed, what was meant to be a chronicle of journalism in a war, was nothing more than a episodic road trip, showing the lacklustre screenwriting for what it is, soggy toilet paper, slightest movement and it falls apart... All the main characters bar one are unlikable, there is little character development, and the stupidity of the actions taken during the movie is nothing short of literal "what on earth" moments when they do it, culminating in the lead actress character going shell shocked, when she isn't in the situation that would cause it, if its trying to portray PTSD, that isn't it either...speaking from a lot of experience. The story tries to create a sense of hopelessness, but just ended up being hopeless, it was badly written, and nobody thought during filming, "hang on, they wouldn't do this", in the "finale" they depicted a rebellion with no leaders, operating as a literal whole American army, armed to the teeth with everything, and never once showed any meaningful defending force except for a couple of secret service agents near the end. It showed a barbaric mindset, summary executions... killing civilians, in fact everything that wasn't them was a target, which, if it was meant to be protraying americans, they just would not do, wether done for shock value, or trying to illustrate the hatred between opposing sides, once the war was won, you would not shoot unarmed people, combatants or not, even at the end of world war 2, once the fighting had stopped, there was cordial respect between opposing troops, the occupying forces allowed the defeated forces to go home after demobbing. This film does not deserve the current rave reviews, it is very poor, and for the first time, I actually regretted going to see it.