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Mosul (2019)
Inaccurate
This review is from an Iraqi who lived throughout the entire thing.
I'm here to state some facts about the zero-hour of operation Mosul liberation...
Watching this film and comparing it to what every Iraqi soldier/civilian had witnessed during that operation, you can't help but say that this film has nothing on the 'Free Burma Rangers' documentary or any other real Mosul firefight you'd see on YouTube.
Sadly to say, considering that the film was supposed to be about Iraq, only 25% (if not less) of the characters in the film were actually Iraqis, others like the kid policeman and most of the guys in the team were Egyptians or Syrians and I thought I recognized one guy's dialect I thought it was from the UAE.
Another facts... The Iraqi SWAT team is actually called Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) or the Golden Division, these guys are under the direct command of the Prime Minister and are in no way obligated to follow the orders of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, incase these guys refuse to follow a direct federal order, they'll be declared fugitives and will be shot on sight just like the Islamic State terrorists. And with that being said, no one in the country apart from the PM has the right to tell them what to do, and especially not a stupid police officer holding a checkpoint only to be bribed. These guys don't stop at checkpoints to ask for permission... They MUST be Iraqi and police detective with a Major rank cannot be a part of them, they only take in people at around the age of 18-23 (not sure about the numbers exactly), so I think you guessed it... they don't recruit people based on motive, it's not up to them.
Also the ISOF operate US military-standard NATO gear and equipment... meaning no AK's, no looting of dead people vests... These guys are the most funded and the most paid infantry personnel in Iraq.
And about the firefight and the scenery of the film... there's a reason why ISIS militants are called rats... they hide behind buildings, fire through holes, and they don't setup outposts in the middle of the street (when the Major and his second in command spotted them with the score/snorkel)... I mean, they literally dug tunnels throughout the entire city with outlets that extend 5-10 kilometers in the outskirts of Mosul. ISIS don't SMOKE CIGARETTES. Period... and that is what the kid looted off of the IS sniper he incapacitated on that rooftop.
I don't know if anyone had the same experience that I had , but this film would've had a rating of 4.5/10.0 tops if it was about world war II and not the most recent event. Sorry, that's just my opinion.
The Trip to Italy (2014)
Why the high rating?
I'm really really disappointed, like, I bought the movie thinking that it is a very very good movie based on the high rating (7.3/10) and, simply it's not as close as good as it was given.
The starting scene was nice up until the part of the dialog when they were sitting in that restaurant making funny noises and impersonating other actors with such a sarcastic voice. Nonetheless, the guy apologizes for his mate's loud voice, but they were shouting so loud, like, there wasn't a human being sitting there, wasn't it supposed to be a general place? Just saying, don't mind me.
I liked the effort that was put into making that movie the cameras and everything else and I do appreciate it but what was it all about? I mean the story, it almost had no particular point, it's basically a complex I wouldn't personally know what is going on, I mean as a person who's watching the movie, all I saw is a guy married to a woman with a 2-7 months old's baby crying-voice while she was calling him at the beginning of the movie, but then he showed his friend the photo of his daughter and she's about 2-4 years old. I don't know if many of you noticed that but I did. That was not well put AT ALL!!
I personally did not enjoy the REPEATED dialog about literature and the voice making thing and that, every time they would go to a restaurant and sit down for a meal, like the film producer ran out of ideas of what would the dialog talk about in the first place...
I am really sorry if that was kinda harsh but, I'm a critic and I would really really like for the people around here to give the movies the rating it deserves so that, it would help the buyer make a better decision and you'll be doing all sides a favor. Cheers!
Alone for Christmas (2013)
This review may contain spoilers and criticism about some of the scenes!
I'm sorry to sound very negative at the first place, but I have seen many many movies up till this very moment and I'm very sad to say that this movie did not make me laugh at all, the camera and the scenes are very terrible, starting from the SNOW when it's sunny, burglars sneaking inside the house in the middle of the day, the producer put some effects on the video to make it look darker, but it really made it worse... The burglars seem very stupid, the guy's stuck and they're pulling him down instead of pushing him up, the dog is the super hero there, which was kinda nice but still there are flaws, like okay, he was doing stuff but the action is kinda cold like it's not very intense, the writer was running out of ideas I guess. Then there's the poses and the music, they don't actually match what's going on, I mean the burglar calls his relative and he joins the next thing you know, they're standing behind the door and giving the devilish evil laugh the three of them, just couldn't see to understand what's going on.
One more thing, if you guys are actually praising the director, and actually saying that the movie has it's chance to be compared to Home Alone, you're totally wrong, in fact home alone made me laugh my butt off, this one made me wanna think why did I buy that movie in the first place. I'm sorry and thanks for your time!