Apparently, they're Iraqi War vets. How original. Homicidal former members of the military--the predictable fallback for insane villainy in films and TV these days. And probably written by a Hollywoodite who doesn't even KNOW anyone in the military. Easier to make 'em the stock bad guys that way......
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Actually the lead guy reminds me a lot of a friend of mine in the military.
Obviously not all soldiers are maniacs but people who get dishonorably discharged sometimes are. It's not an indictment of soldiers so much as it is an indictment on how we treat them over there, putting them through traumatizing events for little to no purpose.
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Eh, I can forgive it since the main female character is extremely flawed.
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I really think War vets shouldn´t be allowed to live among civil people. Most of them end up being simply psychopaths (some of them already were before enroling the army, in fact)
sharewah wah, grow a pair dude. Hollywood always makes the villains minorities or White male extremists.
shareThey must have been magicians as well, like Blaine or Copperfield, because the Helmand Province is in Afghanistan, not Iraq.
The vets have been dishonorably discharged from the military after they murdered civilians who had no connection to insurgents. It wasn't made clear in the story, if they were also court martialed or not.
If real life is more to your liking, you should recall what happened in Cavalese, or its approximation. Almost 15 years went by until the navigator of that flight was charged with obstruction of justice, as he destroyed the camcorder tape, which would have proven that they had murdered civilians. Although there's still an air base, that single incident ended the Marine Air Force presence, and the verdict of conduct unbecoming to an officer and gentleman was given, so it's not like every active member and vet is a shining pillar of their community, if it were like that, there wouldn't be a need for Fort Leavenworth, investigative units, miltary judges and prosecutors.
The movie has also not claimed they became bad guys because of the conflict, they became ones by their own accord and felt no remorse slaughtering civilians. One of them even says, they shouldn't kill the girls, ergo he had some morals toward local civilians, but was totally fine killing others overseas. The military wasn't hence why they got the boot.
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