![]() I would place it on the same, well-done, stereotype-shattering heroic level as "Men of Honor". However, I believe it is definitely worth watching as a night's entertainment. This may not be the best war movie ever made. ![]() Meg Ryan was surprisingly excellent at portraying a character who, through the stories changing multiple times, must be both heroic, cowardly, and still maintain dignity and honor in the face of overwhelming odds. Denzel has done this character before, which also makes him a perfect fit for the tortured commander who wants to do the right thing against the powers that be. If you are a movie lover - youre gonna love our channel Get your popcorn & soda and enjoy legendary scenes fromyour favorite movies. It also is the story of redemption for two very classy, honorable soldiers who deserve more from their country - and their other brothers in arms. ![]() another's - and who is telling the truth when one of them is dead. Since there are so few witnesses under intense enemy fire, it's basically one soldier's word vs. This is a clever "did she/didn't she" narrative with sides changing their story at nearly every turn. wrong with a very important military mystery blocking Denzel's path to the easy path of just giving it to her. Whether it would be the first female to be awarded this prestigious medal is irrelevant. What becomes more complicated is how Denzel's character must overcome his own demons in order to objectively give America's most important wartime medal to a deserving/undeserving member of the service. There is very little difficulty separating the two stories. ![]() What starts out as a clear-cut "give her the medal because the President and our government needs a female hero" turns into a genuine mystery as to whether the pilot truly deserves it or not. Over the course of the next 24 hours, the heroes come to terms with who they are under intense enemy fire. The other story is of a heroic helicopter crew, led by Major Meg Ryan as the pilot, who goes down while trying to protect another downed chopper crew. It is a daunting, and sometimes overwhelming, task to command. enemy at night while looking through infrared scopes while under intense fire. This lends itself to the realism and confusion of actual warfare where warriors are expected to determine friend vs. The first - Denzel as commander of the tank battalion - is dark and understandably confusing. There are two stories running simultaneously throughout the picture. What transpires, however, is anything but a slam-dunk for the war-worn commander. The PTSD and media backlash has pushed him to near-alcoholism as he is reassigned to basically rubber-stamp the posthumous Medal of Honor intended for the first female to receive the award for heroics in wartime. Showing why he is such a classy military actor, Colonel Denzel Washington encapsulates the emotional baggage of being participant as commander of a tank battalion that pulled the trigger in a "friendly-fire" scenario that continues to haunt him when he gets stateside. Still was a great piece.This is one of those war movies where you feel how difficult it is to be a soldier in the middle of a war zone with bravery, cowardice, confusion, orders, and emotional turmoil taking it's toll on the human psyche while yours and your fellow soldiers' lives are perilously hanging in the balance during the first Gulf War. The balance of helicopter footage was stock footage, and the crash was stock footage and CGI. A rented helicopter was used one day to fly down a street and shoot machine guns at a limo. I personally worked on set with a helicopter crash. This stock footage is edited to clear back ground option. Many stock footage companies now will take a hero plane (common type of craft), and R/C control a secondary (flying condition), and crash and explode it in a field. I stress no real plane is crashed with a human inside. (again pending the quality of artist and software. If not, you can see the variance (James bond series has a few plane crashes done in the past that don't look quite right)ĬGI and CGI model blends have improved so much it is difficult to differentiate between them and actual shots. If the modelers are good, this blends very well. High end models are made of the crash scene, and the model plane to crash. Most explosions are dropped with cables, off cranes, or actually on ground and exploded. Secondary and thirds have cosmetic work done to look like hero. Most high end productions can rent a specific model of craft (hero craft, tight shots, flying), and buy a secondary (rebuild) and retro fit to RC like a radio controlled toy, or third (non functioning from graveyard). ![]()
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