It’s pretty good, it’s entertaining, there are some tense scenes. It’s not the best war film out there, but it’s ok for a non-war-knowledgeable human.

Amid the fetishized violence and dubious cultural stereotypes, we're also expected believe that the Californian hillside setting is a mountainous range in the Middle East.

Too many cooks, no matter how skilled, can spoil the soup. This is more of a case of one cook trying to cook too many soups. "A" for effort though.

On a technical level ... [this] one-man-against-an-army tale is staged in such an amateurish way that none of ... [the] action ... feels as if it's actually happening.