Review of 12 Strong (2018) by Arkcentralhq — 19 Mar 2018

12 STRONG ALL WRONG.

I find it inconceivable that Hollywood pumps out such classic one sided US imperialist cliches after setting such high water marks like Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket.

Please, it is propaganda at best, cinematic fantasy at worst, that 12 elite men take on the might of the Northern Taliban Warlords in Afghanistan immediately after 9:11 disaster. ALL RETURN with fleshy scratches. 'Tis akin to Monty Python's 'just a scratch' Knight.

Why revert to the John Wayne macho, gunslinger cult hero Capt Hemsworth to create a mythical scenario, albeit historical, which tumbles in a free fall to boring predictable outcomes and rewriting the events with a Stars n Stripes bias of "here to set the world aright " with the world's most powerful strategic bombing from 23 kilometres above.

Ironically the climax sees Capt Marvel riding as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse through the jaws of innumerable tanks, mobile machine gunners, rocket launchers etc to take out two Russian Rocket launches.!!

It was as anticlimactic as Donald Trump' s presidency... I am asked to believe this happened. PURE HOLLYWOOD AND FAKE HISTORY @realTrump.

What is this unquenchable appetite for US rewriting of clear humiliations like Vietnam and Afghanistan into mythical sideshows of unkillable heroes who prefer death before dishonour. The dialogue is over burdened with extreme patriotism and only occasionally emits a ray of light that shows the forgotten Truth " Afghanistan is a graveyard for would be world conquerors!". The most moving and truthful part of the movie was the wall with Russian graffiti of the 10 years of wasted lives and futility experienced in the 80's. This made the whole premise of this movie smack of the Unreality of Designated Survivor series which purports to show how Hollywood could lead America back to Greatness. This displaced world leader can only make movies about the past because it has no present glories to celebrate. My problem is that it can't tell the truth anymore so much as romanticised myths.