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Right away at the beginning

posted 8 years ago by TheManInOil
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we're presented with a lone soldier, taking cover (from what/whom?) who insists he can't wait for backup and they should 'follow him in'. Why? What's the urgency? What is he going in looking for/running from? They never bother to tell us.

He seems to happen across the spectre thing accidentally - he wasn't expecting it and doesn't seem to have been aware of its existence. So what was he there to do and why was it such a rush?

They don't bother to answer any of this. He's just there to give us a guy alone being killed so the plot can move forward. This is very sloppy writing. Things that happen in movies really need to be motivated, and not just happen to convey information to the audience.

Movies these days seem to just be a bunch of disconnected scenes with no story logic behind them.

[–] Dredj 8 years ago

He was Delta force, he was there doing CIA stuff, probably recon like the other teams. Overall they are there fighting insurgents, and then this whole entity stuff happened.

[–] jm-williams31 8 years ago

it even tells you in the movie that he was "separated from his squad" and later we see that being in a squad does not really help much...

[–] GrapeApe1969 8 years ago

Movie goers now days seem to have EVERY little detail spoon fed to them. We don't NEED to know the exact details why he was there. That scene was our jumping point into the movie's story.

Not that hard to infer there was probably some fighting which caused him to be separated from his team, and the bad guys were after him. He stated that the back up team should follow him in, which means he was probably at whatever his goal was and that the enemy was probably closing in on him which is why he didn't have time to wait for said backup. Do we NEED to know what he was looking for? NO! Do we NEED to know who was after him? NO! Do we NEED to know why he was alone? NO! It has NO importance to the plot. Sloppy writing? More like lazy viewers who again, need every detail spoon fed to them now days.

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[–] donbizzaro 8 years ago

Things that happen in movies really need to be motivated, and not just happen to convey information to the audience.

The entire film was like that. Random scenes jumping around, and the characters needing to narrate just to shuffle the "story" forward. It was pretty agonizing. Some of the worst writing i've seen in a while.

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