*** ONE GODDAMN DAY IN THE SHITHOLE CALLED IRAQ ***

"AMERICAN SOLDIERS" ("MiB"; DVD):

It seemed to me over the last years that a lot of new 'War-Movies' or 'Anti-War-Movies' were produced due to the fact of the wars in Assghanistan and the shithole of the name of Iraq. But also in other countries movies were done that dealt with wars that raged on with soldiers of the country involved in them. For example 'War-Movies' that had been produced in Russia which use to deal- for example- with the war in Chechenya. And yes, also 'the West' use to produce his new 'War-Movies', and one of them is this one here named "AMERICAN SOLDIERS", a Canadian movie (...) that was done back in 2006 and with the german edition came out in 2007. So, okay, after all this basic information stuff straight ahead to the movie.

A platoon of young American Soldiers, I think it use to be Marines, is on one of their first combat missions in Iraq, back in April 2004, as an escort or an convoy of an fuel carriage. Very soon they were trapped in an ambush of some so called and self proclaimed 'freedom fighters', and then it all starts to become one hell of a day. An endless seeming row of fights and shootings follow. Standing all alone, the Captain is hurt badly, and more and more of them fall or are hurt bad. There's no support 'cause all the allied units are also under fire and so they had to start to make their way through the city and the blood streets to get to a point where an chopper should take them and fly them out of the battle zone. On their journey to this point they get into another fight with the 'Freedom Fighters' and some corrupt iraqi police men that should rather secure and support them. Barricades in a police building they get it done and move on to their chopper checkpoint to get finally out there. But bad luck struck them again, while their ammunition is more and more getting low the chopper had been crashed down due to enemy fire. After this all seems lost until they meet a troop of soldiers of the U.S. american National Guard that are taking prisoners to an CIA prison. There the platoon gets aware of torture and other inhuman practises and they decide to put an end to this... After this their situation is not getting better and while ambushs strikes again and more and more fall and die again the movie reaches his climax when the remaining soldiers of the platoon get into a bloody fight with knifes, fists and stones with a troop of iraqi 'Freedom Fighters'. After this the movie finishes with the reamining soldiers going finally 'home' to their camp to start another day in Iraq.

What now may seem to you written without too much emotion or passion is also what you get from the movie. I haven't expected a new "BLACK HAWK DOWN" for that great movie is just larger-than-life, and I also didn't expect some new "PLATOON" or what-so-ever after this whole self-mutilation of the West (and especially the U.S.A.) of the Vietnam War era is today long dead, but I just expected a 'War-Movie' that also works as a movie and not as a fuckin' Computer Game. It's just an endless seeming row of always harder getting fights and shootings that seem like taken from an Ego Shooter PC Game, and the times between this battles seem to be like some short scenes to just get the game player (or the movie viewer...) onward to the next bloody battle. There isn't one single character that really gets worked out precisely, but a lot of the displayed characters got the potential for this also in their counterparts between 'critical patriotism' and 'blind nationalism', so that the movie works more like an PC or Video game than like a movie at all, and that's really pity. Because so the movie isn't that bad at all, even it's nothing like a masterpiece it really owns a lot of potential, but it's not worked out enough. Also there's a good mixture out of understanding and criticism of the war in Iraq and of wars in general and it's shown how less the fighting forces really get to know what's going on behind their frontlines (torture, murder, etc.) that are soaked with their blood, because they are just too busy to just stay somehow alive. Also it hows what a failure it was to start the war with too less troops to remain and install a strong 'Occuptaion' so that all this 'Freedom Fighters' scum would not have a single real chance. And also it's not a stupid and ridiculous politically correct self-mutilation movie or a backstabbing to the armed forces, so all in all also political this movie really has a lot of good points to make, you can be pretty sure about this. It's really sad that a lot- if not the most- of the potential that this movie owns without any questions or doubts is just not being used anyhow. I think that's the case when you try to make movies that also some stupid retarded kids of today can somehow follow that aren't able to concentrate on more than five or six full sentences spoken in a row due to their addiction to PC and Video games and may the gods know what else more...

Some good and really impressive pictures are shown, and the movie is done pretty 'handy about the house', if you know what I mean, so that you don't have that much to worry about on this front, but the before described major problem stays anyhow and that really blocks a higher rating than just a solid one. Ah, the german dubbing isn't the best at all, but it's also not that much hurting so that you can get used to live with it easily. Decide for yourself if you need a new 'War-Movie' with a lot of potential but some serious problems or lacks when it comes to the final result. Not bad, don't get me wrong, no, no, no, it's really a solid movie but it could have been done so much better... it could truly have been really so much more... (6 of 10 points)

Here comes the official video trailer to this movie, hm, it was first announced as the german trailer, then as the english trailer, hm, but if you ask me it's the spanish trailer or what-so-ever, but how-ever, here it comes and you can see that it really could have been so much more!!! Enjoy it!!!

"AMERICAN SOLDIERS"