After action report. Watched The Outpost Saturday night. It's "okay" but just okay. Like most films about some specific battle they can't spend too much time on each character so you only get a thumbnail sketch of the main players and their lives and then the events of a day long battle are compressed into the last half of the movie so you don't get a good sense of how ferocious and back and forth it really was.
However, they did give a good sense that the guys in Afghanistan have to put up with the same kinds of SNAFU's soldiers had to in Viet Nam. Some higher up in a safe place insists on making a show of something and the soldiers in the field have to pay for it, sometimes with their lives. Also how some officers are very good leaders and some are much less so.
Overall I give it 3 stars, it's definitely worth a watch even if not great cinema. The last portion while the credits roll can invoke some allergies.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
