It's a movie about a Pentagon project, the Bradley soldier carrier. A man from the airforce is sent in to test it before it can go into production. The Pentagon generals and other military men on the project all refuse any proper testing and stop all tests one at a time. That's the comedy in the movie. This guy picked by Congress to do the tests and Pentagon ruining them all. There are no jokes, no funny scenes, I didn't laugh a single time.
The movie feels like it's set in a few locations in small sets. The acting is fine. But it's just painfully unfunny 100% of the way. Not a single funny scene whatsoever. The plot does save it. It's a clever game of cat and mouse and this one guy trying to fight the Pentagon. Congress and White House leaders or whatever keep making Pentagon test the transportation vehicle they themselves are designing. So of course all those tests are fake. That's what always happens in such government army projects. It's extremely hard to develop a new weapon. 9 out of 10 fail. And you want that one weapon that works. The government on the other hand picks a weapon system and just forces it into use by throwing money at it and prematurally throwing it into combat. Many don't know this stuff and this movie cleverly presents it all. The AR-15 project is mentioned in the movie. A rifle Pentagon sent into battle in a very cheap defect state and refusing it to be cleaned by the soldiers as they wanted to replace it in a few years and it working would hinder that. So many American soldiers died because of defect weapons during the Vietnam war until Congress finally held hearings and forced Pentagon to fix the weapon. And they did create the best rifle ever once they understood that Congress was angry. Pentagon always does this stuff. So the movie is very important and will always stay relevant. In 20 years there will be some new huge failed project and people will point to movies like this one. It's just irritating that it's unfunny and maybe a bit simple overall. No action scenes, no love story, no personal lives presented. No wives, no children, no journalists shown, no crying, no laughing, no clever camera work. The movie is very bareboned and the script saves it. It feels like a theater play.
I would say it was an interesting watch for sure. And it's curious how basically all big projects where the police department, military institution, teacher union is set to investigate their own faults always fail at finding any faults whatsoever and it leads to giant overpriced disasters. The movie is informative. But it's a shame it is comedic. It's a way to avoid telling the full truth, by making all the drama overly silly and unrealistic.
The movie feels like it's set in a few locations in small sets. The acting is fine. But it's just painfully unfunny 100% of the way. Not a single funny scene whatsoever. The plot does save it. It's a clever game of cat and mouse and this one guy trying to fight the Pentagon. Congress and White House leaders or whatever keep making Pentagon test the transportation vehicle they themselves are designing. So of course all those tests are fake. That's what always happens in such government army projects. It's extremely hard to develop a new weapon. 9 out of 10 fail. And you want that one weapon that works. The government on the other hand picks a weapon system and just forces it into use by throwing money at it and prematurally throwing it into combat. Many don't know this stuff and this movie cleverly presents it all. The AR-15 project is mentioned in the movie. A rifle Pentagon sent into battle in a very cheap defect state and refusing it to be cleaned by the soldiers as they wanted to replace it in a few years and it working would hinder that. So many American soldiers died because of defect weapons during the Vietnam war until Congress finally held hearings and forced Pentagon to fix the weapon. And they did create the best rifle ever once they understood that Congress was angry. Pentagon always does this stuff. So the movie is very important and will always stay relevant. In 20 years there will be some new huge failed project and people will point to movies like this one. It's just irritating that it's unfunny and maybe a bit simple overall. No action scenes, no love story, no personal lives presented. No wives, no children, no journalists shown, no crying, no laughing, no clever camera work. The movie is very bareboned and the script saves it. It feels like a theater play.
I would say it was an interesting watch for sure. And it's curious how basically all big projects where the police department, military institution, teacher union is set to investigate their own faults always fail at finding any faults whatsoever and it leads to giant overpriced disasters. The movie is informative. But it's a shame it is comedic. It's a way to avoid telling the full truth, by making all the drama overly silly and unrealistic.