Jarhead 3 : Le Siège

Spectacular and noisy film about an attack to USA Embassy. A group of marines must protect the American embassy located in the Middle East when it is besieged by enemy forces. The country is one of the most dangerous places in the world, and nations have pulled their diplomatic offices out of the country in fear of an attack by militants. Among them is Corporal Evan Albright (Charlie Weber) , a rootless young man who signed up to save the world and experience a bit of action. Embassy in a seemingly safe Middle Eastern capitol, relegates his unit to wrangling "gate groupies" protesting outside the compound and honing their marksmanship by playing video games. So Albright and his team are caught off guard when well-armed and well-trained militants launch a surprise attack aimed at killing an informant in the embassy. Heavily out-gunned, they will have to muster all the courage and firepower they can as their once routine assignment spirals into all-out war.

Conventional elements in the screenplay as heroism, comradeship, are based on a story devoid of sentimentality and balanced by a genuinely complex examination of courage in the field. This thrilling film contains noisy action, violence, shootouts and high body count. Precisely, 'action' is the key word of this film, the second sequel to 'Jarhead', the film released by Sam Mendes in 2005 that dealt with the Gulf War starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx . Little remains of the plot of the original film and only Dennis Haysbert (President Palmer in the series 24) reprises the role of Commander Lincoln. Of the rest of the casting, the names of television's Charlie Weber, Sasha Jackson, Dante Basco, Romeo Mille and special mention for Scott Adkins, a prolific actor in the action and fight genre, such as Expendables 2, One Shot, Debt Collectors or Bourne Unltimatum, stand out.

As a trivia, add that the plot is very similar to that of 13 hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, this one was released commercially, while this Jarhead 3 went direct to DVD or television premiere. The motion picture was was routinely but professionally directed by William Kauffman. He's an expert on thrillers and action movies, such as: ¨The prodigy, The Hit List, Sinners and saints, One in the Chamber , The Marine 4: moving target, Daylight's end, Warhorse One, Lazarat, The Channel , Metralla¨, among others.

The saga Jarhead is made up of: ¨Jarhead¨ (2005) by Sam Mendes with Jake Gyllenhaal, Scott MacDonald, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black. ¨Jarhead: Field of fire¨(2014) by Don Michael Paul with Cole Hauser, Stephen Lang, Bokeem Woodbine, Esai Morales , Jesse Garcia, Jason Wong, Josh Kelly.¨Jarhead: The siege¨ (2016) by William Kaufman with Scott Adkins, Charlie Weber, Dante Basco , Romeo Miller, Erik Valdez, Sasha Jackson, Dennis Haysbert. ¨Jarhead: Law of Return¨ (2019) with Devon Sawa, Amaury Norlasco, Amos Taman, Nicholas Aaron, Robert Patrick .

So pretty much this movie was nothing but action... I forced myself to watch Jarhead 3... First Jarhead movie was great, well written funny yet serious. The second one was too serious and stole lines from movies like V for Vendetta. The 3rd one they just said screw it to a story and just had non stop fighting for 2 hours straight. Made me think of wanting to make a movie and title is the third installment then make it just after the intro nothing but action to confused the people and end the movie with the hero saying some sly line like "Your logic is flawed murdering innocent people. You are not a hero to your people but a murder." then the villain saying "I see my error of my ways I surrender." right in the middle of a tense action scene.

The guns seemed to have unlimited ammo, and I realized the blonde girl was most likely CIA since she knew how to shoot right from the get go.

I would never consider this movie to anyone I know to save them 2 hours of their life... Sad part is I watched Jarhead 2 and 3 which had nothing to do with the original plot of Jarhead which was actually written by a man who spent time in Iraq during desert storm/desert shield.

This isn't a film, it's a stupid laddish bullet-fest and nothing more. Guns, guns, and more guns, unleashing a million rounds, making lots of noise, and completely bombing.

It's not often I turn a movie off and don't finish it, but I did with this one. How do you make a military movie, but have absolutely no military guidance in the acting? At about 20 minutes in when they do the training scenario, they fly past every room without clearing them. Then Albright head shots the terrorist holding the HVT without having his weapon shouldered properly or even looking through the optics. That was enough to know this movie was all Hollywood and no military accuracy.

Don't waste your time

I often wondered why some actually not bad or even serious movies would insert a totally unnecessary cast, a comic-relief like jerk in the screenplays to completely ridicule and ruin them. The worst outcome is putting such clown figures in an action movie. We had seen Bruce Lee's martial art Kung-Fu movies stupidly arranged such totally unnecessary and inappropriate role and degenerated those supposedly suspenseful action movies into not quite serious enough ones. This "Jarhed 3" was another victim by such stupid arrangement in its screenplay, allowing a totally unnecessary character, Blake, played by the annoying Filipino American, Dante Basco, to mess up with and almost ruined it soon as this jerk-like guy holding a camcorder, appeared on the screen.

I am not so sure about the connections between the screenplay writer(s), the director, or even the executive producer(s) with Dante Basco, but one thing I could definitely assure is this sore-thumb like character completely torpedoed this, by general standard, not too bad, albeit quite serious action TV movie. Of course, there are many flaws and loopholes inherited from the screenplay's scenario and plot, but except this jerk-like stand-alone Blake character, all the other players did their jobs quite seriously. The clown character in a serious U.S. Embassy is not just possible but unthinkable, that stupid arrangement simply and totally ruined the believability of this movie, even there were many settings, furniture, bullet-proof windows and glasses were so vividly and realistically destroyed.

The Chinese got an old saying to describe such inappropriate careless arrangement that doomed the outcome: "A whole well-prepared pot of porridge is ruin by just one piece of small rat dropping", Blake/Dante Basco, is indeed that piece of rat dropping.