Review of 12 Strong (2018) by Twitu — 26 Apr 2018
Had a nice start. I hoped for a Vietnam style anti-war movie. where they admit how useless this war was from the beginning. But no. Its Rambo 3 Refurbished Edition.
Its completely unrealistic and they show pretty much the same battle 4 times in the movie.
What really angered me is the fact that they make this operation against Al Qaeda out to be such a heroic task but then forget to mention that the USA today supports Al Qaeda in Syria. All these American deaths were for absolutely nothing. Just like in Vietnam. After Vietnam, as many years later as we are away from the first day in Afghanistan today, America understood what a war they started back then. It pushed out Vietnam movies that were almost all great. They drove tears into peoples eyes, made them swear "never again". And now look at us now. Look at the propaganda movies we do, look at the media and Hollywood helping keeping these wars alive. "Afghanistan was justified! We still need to stay there! You were all heroes! Assad is next!".
Soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq died for nothing and are still killing themselves at home. Nothing. And now we are funding the people who they fought against, just because they are against Assad and Russia.
Unbelievable. This movie is part of the problem.
This review of 12 Strong (2018) was written by Twitu on 26 April 2018.
12 Strong has generally received positive reviews.
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