writer - Paul Tamasy

Cast - Scott Eastwood

average Ratings - 7 / 10

2020

description - The Outpost is a movie starring Caleb Landry Jones, Orlando Bloom, and Scott Eastwood. A small team of U.S. soldiers battle against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan

directors - Rod Lurie

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The movie is not bad, you can watch. On the other hand, I'm sorry for the director of The Outpost, the filmmakers, but the Afghan war film called 9th Company can't be overwritten. Hollywood needs to train a little more.

After reading the book (Also on Audible) I was excited for this movie. Unfortunately the script jumps around way too much. The audience never gets a chance to connect to the actual story or soldiers. This movie could of been sooo much better. My advise is to read the book or listen to it in audible, then watch this movie. Otherwise it's just far too confusing and average war movie at best. As far as recent war movies go, this is up there in great cinematography, acting and authenticity. Although there are scenes when the enemies seem to be bullet proof or the US soldiers are bad shots, The big let down is the exaggeration and embellishing of the truth.
This movie is based on an actual event. I emphasize the word "based" as it ventures far from the actual event.
I could not for a moment imagine one of the actual veterans of that event watching the movie and say "nailed it. No way. Clearly obvious or at least obviously lacking are veterans themselves not in the credits as advisers.
There are combat scenes that do not at all match the reality of that battle, but certainly make for a good war movie.
why why why do US film makers keep making movies about the war in Afghanistan keep portraying Afghan (Taliban) as poor shots, badly trained and appearing dumb? That is/was never the case in reality.
My opinion is that this is an entertaining movie of the war in Afghanistan but in regards to accuracy, it could be perhaps be compared to a Yogi Bear cartoon as a documentary about Grizzly Bears. Maybe that is a harsh description, but the film makers certainly have ventured far from the truth.
I give it only 3 stars for saying it is an accurate depiction when it is not.

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