Rescue Under Fire

Just to save a crappy chopper, they decided to risk the lives of many soldiers? This is unreal!!

Classical "we are trapped behind enemy lines" movie, well played. Right mix of story/drama and action. I was well entertained.

That doesn't always work now does it? Especially in war territory. If you are trapped somewhere and help cannot come easily ... you may be more in need of it, than the ones you came to rescue.

Really well done war movie/effort, where you may not get behind every soldiers motivation and the enemy overall seems quite paper thin when it comes to motivation (kill), but still is tension filled enough so you won't get bored ... not for the squeamish or easily offended obviously, but everyone else will have ... well "fun"

In Afghanistan a joint Spanish American patrol is ambushed. A rescue helicopter crashlands at the site. Back at base the commanding officer decides not to destroy the helicopter on the grounds that it could be used in a propaganda coup by the Taliban so tells the patrol commander to sit tight and set up a perimeter at the crash site where the grounded helicopter and patrol will all be evacuated the next day. As it turns out the Taliban are preparing to over run the perimeter and by morning there may be no one left alive to evacuate

I had RESCUE UNDER FIRE down as some sort of feminist girly type of movie since we're quickly introduced to a couple of female characters. This isn't really how the film plays out. Instead we have a rather traditional type of tale similar in some ways to how LONE SURVIVOR played out with a small team of Western soldiers trapped by the Taliban or to make a further allusion a bunch of homesteaders surrounded by Injuns . You've no doubt seen all this before but what the film does do well is draw you in to the action and create tension. It also helps that being a Spanish film with a Spanish cast the faces were unknown to me so I could easily buy in to these being real people in a real conflict with Jacobo Dicenta totally convincing as Sgt Agullar

Just in case you're wondering why NATO didn't just extract the troops , bomb the copter and have a press conference sinking any Taliban claims that it was shot down by the Taliban I wonder why they didn't do that either . Same I'm puzzled why NATO didn't have constant press conferences saying they're delivering medical aid to countless civilians while the Taliban were raping boys and throwing acid in the face of unveiled women .

I read the other reviews and mostly agree with them, excepting in one thing. One guy (or girl) cannot understand why NATO did not rescue the crew and bounded (with a lot of firing power, I assume) and bombed the crashed helicopter. Other is claiming how bad is to be with the Spanish army, based on similar arguments.

To both of you, beloved American friends: This is the way we Spaniards do things. We have NOT unlimited power on the ground, but rather very limited. And this was a UN mission: your losses are yours, and you come back to your base with them. This is what you haven't understood of this history. Only a couple of Tigers, one of them uncharged, to send. And the idea of recovering the crashed helicopter doesn't come from the officials; it is a field sergeant who brings it about. Why? - Because he knows for sure how much things cost and that he would have to come back with a missing unit for a long time ...