I tried to watch this movie today, and couldn't even make it past the first thirty minutes. It wasn't that the acting was bad (it was), or that the plot was poor (a Navy SEAL commander being given charge of an Embassy?), but that the logic and tactics were so hideous, I couldn't stand to watch anymore: The marine corporal flashes a SEAL UNIT ID card: First, he's a marine, not a SEAL. Second, a driver would flash his military ID, not a SEAL ID. Third, no way that guy was a SEAL.
When they first arrive at the embassy, the car just drives right into the grounds: no checks, no ID, no searches. Heck, you can't drive onto the grounds of a government OFFICE complex without some ID checks, and these marines just open the gate to the first black car that heads their way.
During the first attack on the embassy, a marine notifies his gunny that they have an RPG in the street, and no one does a thing! No one sets up to shoot the RPG gunner, no one says a word to anyone else.. they just let him set up calmly in the street, and shoot. Only AFTER the grenade goes through the PLATE GLASS WINDOWS facing the street (with no wire mesh, screens, or bars on them), does the embassy WHICH HAS BEEN UNDER ATTACK already decide to lower their steel window covers.
Also during the rescue, the marines have no orderly retreat/cover fire, and they leave two outside the embassy, about 25 feet from shelter? Twelve marines on the walls to provide cover fire, and not a one can manage to help their two buddies get 25 feet down the street.
I had to stop watching... it was making me ill, just to see the mistakes.
When they first arrive at the embassy, the car just drives right into the grounds: no checks, no ID, no searches. Heck, you can't drive onto the grounds of a government OFFICE complex without some ID checks, and these marines just open the gate to the first black car that heads their way.
During the first attack on the embassy, a marine notifies his gunny that they have an RPG in the street, and no one does a thing! No one sets up to shoot the RPG gunner, no one says a word to anyone else.. they just let him set up calmly in the street, and shoot. Only AFTER the grenade goes through the PLATE GLASS WINDOWS facing the street (with no wire mesh, screens, or bars on them), does the embassy WHICH HAS BEEN UNDER ATTACK already decide to lower their steel window covers.
Also during the rescue, the marines have no orderly retreat/cover fire, and they leave two outside the embassy, about 25 feet from shelter? Twelve marines on the walls to provide cover fire, and not a one can manage to help their two buddies get 25 feet down the street.
I had to stop watching... it was making me ill, just to see the mistakes.