Hyena Road: the movie

[rob love]

Ed
The majority of actors in all movies who play act at being in the army have no idea about the formalities that are observed within the military. Otherwise, they would be soldiers.

As the sentiment of watching the movie wears off, I have to agree with most of your points. Way too many "stand downs" being ordered on the air. One does not ordinarily see a lot of emotional conflict during voice procedures. And unfortunately the lesser budget of a Canadian movie will not allow them to be firing dozens of live M777 rounds downrange.

Even the wife noticed that the first two shots of M777 were relatively tame, while the third shot, which was done in Afghanistan, shook the whole ground and had the missing feature of the other shots with incredible amounts of dust.

But being Canadian, we will likely never see a Cdn version of "Fury" with the topic being Canada's involvement in the Afghanistan war. I am thinking that this is going to be about as good as it gets and gives the Canadian public a little taste of what it would have been like for our troops (although perhaps a little more condensed) in theater.

Things that were right were the plywood buildings, and the cases of water bottles everywhere (there should/could have been even more).

I also have to say the "ghost" looked a little too clean and healthy compared to the locals that I had ever dealt with. The father and son though seemed to fit my memory of some of the locals quite well, although perhaps a little too slick.