Warfighter

Nonsensical rubbish, rotten acting and actors that simply don't fit in many of the scenes. It simply is unconvincing. Sad to say, this movie's current 8.7 rating appears to be yet another colossal up-vote by cast, crew and all their extended families.

IMDb is getting flooded with fake reviews. Nowadays you can't just read a positive review without checking the profile whether or not it may be legit, and everything beyond 7 stars is usually fake, no matter which film. If this continuous nobody should bother visiting anymore.

Here is a good example that all those saying it's a great film are in some way or another associated with the film crew or simply took a bit money. Click on their rotten profiles and see for yourself.

To the the film itself: Practically zero redeeming qualities. I just added an extra star for the locations. Bad acting, amateurish directing and editing, lame combat scenes without much of an understanding on what to do, they even momentarily cease fire to have a chat while enemy combatants are closing in. Seriously? The PTSD addition could have been interesting, instead you end up thinking "WTF!?!".

So the message might have been honorable, the execution certainly was not. Watch "13 Hours" instead if you want to see pros depicting pros.

Ok so it's not a high-budget box office hit with A-list actors... I'm ok with that. I enjoy finding movies I've never heard of and giving them a chance. I wish a few things had been clarified a little more, but overall I enjoyed the movie. I thought the main character was really likable as well. So many movie snobs out there... smh.

Actor, producer, writer and director Jerry G. Angelo wore all these hats, as one would in a high school drama class to create a project that's been done many times before, and thus also over-cliched. The directing is the only fairly decent quality of this film, and even that felt amateurish. The acting is sub-par, even for c-list actors, probably from the lack of directing the cast effectively. None of the cast were convincing, and they all seemed to struggle in the acting department. The screenplay was all over the place and the slow dragged-out pacing made the 105 mins feel like 3 hours. The sound was way off and distant, no boom mics? The score was too evident and annoying. A huge pass on this one, and ignore all the fake reviews. It's a very generous 3/10 from me

Why I liked this movie is because of how Jerry G. Angelo perfectly captured the complexity of the hero suffering (PTSD) because of his success as a hero. When some of you have lived longer and are aware of how "we can become victims of our own success" then you may come to enjoy such movies from this level of appreciation, if no other. In the movie Troy when Achilles was told "...But if you go to Troy, you will never come back... for your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom." ...and since becoming aware of it, I have seen this dynamic play out, such as when a fellow employee who is busy and productive, gets even more work thrown at him until it becomes unsustainable for him and gets fired or he moves on. American Warfighter carries this truth further down the road of cinematic lore. For this reason, I say it's a great movie and highly watchable! Well done Jerry :)