Zero Dark Thirty - Mini Review

Caught this movie just a while a ago, gotta say, it was better than i expected! This was probably cos i had heard from other friends that the show was kinda boring, and i guess that kinda put into my head that it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. :p

Again, if you're going into the show expecting lots of gunfights and explosions, then you'd probably be disappointed, this movie was more about (over 70% of the movie) how they came to track down the whereabouts of UBL (Or OBL to some of us). The buildup is good, and i guess the main character is pretty likeable too.

Having read the book "No Easy Day", i more or less knew what to expect on the assault itself, which is the final portion of the movie. The movie does take some liberties on the operation itself (like the backup chinooks which accompanied the main force, not present at all!) to keep the pace going, but most of the happenings in the book more or less took place on screen too.

 

I was reading from SOFREP, that some actual ex SOF people who saw the movie weren't too impressed with the tactics/movement etc, yes, i have to agree that although some aspects seemed messy to me (weapon discipline, you can see their IR lasers aiming everywhere, and noise discipline was non-existant), it was still acceptable to the myself just for the 'cool' factor, and it wouldn't have made a difference to a majority of the crowd anyways!

Oh, and remember, if some stranger gets into your house at odd hours, and calls out your name, for heaven's sake, DON'T peek out to take a look! :p
 

So catch this movie while you can, a good two thumbs up for this, Hooah!

The Mission to get Osama

Pretty good read here, although it's pretty tough to say what's legit and what's not, since everything's "Top Secret" and hush hush! At most it makes a good script for the next Michael Bay or Jerry Bruckheimer movie, or maybe a side mission in Battlefield 3! ;)
An excerpt :

"Three SEALs in front broke off to clear the guesthouse as the remaining nine blasted through another gate and entered an inner courtyard, which faced the main house. When the smaller unit rounded the corner to face the doors of the guesthouse, they spotted Kuwaiti running inside to warn his wife and children. The Americans’ night-vision goggles cast the scene in pixellated shades of emerald green. Kuwaiti, wearing a white shalwar kameez, had grabbed a weapon and was coming back outside when the SEALs opened fire and killed him.

The nine other SEALs, including Mark, formed three-man units for clearing the inner courtyard. The Americans suspected that several more men were in the house: Kuwaiti’s thirty-three-year-old brother, Abrar; bin Laden’s sons Hamza and Khalid; and bin Laden himself. One SEAL unit had no sooner trod on the paved patio at the house’s front entrance when Abrar—a stocky, mustachioed man in a cream-colored shalwar kameez—appeared with an AK-47. He was shot in the chest and killed, as was his wife, Bushra, who was standing, unarmed, beside him. "