a5c7b9f00b Armed only with their cameras, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning conflict Journalist Mike Boettcher, and his son, Carlos, provide unprecedented access into the longest war in U.S. history. Career Journalist Mike Boettcher takes his son to the war zone in Afghanistan, covering U.S. Combat Troops on the front lines. What starts outan effort to reconnect with his son, becomes a remarkable true story and fight for survival for all. What gets me is the madness of the father taking his son to a region where death is almost tangible at every corner. If you want to introduce a situation to people is there really a need to endanger others especially your own kin in the process and to what purpose? Aside from this obvious clusterfracus one just gets so annoyed with the terrible soundtrack. Over the top and totally disengaging. The ongoing stream of how bad and loathsome war is seems to be a real in with the liberal mindset of Hollywood. So we start to become a nation of do nothings which is exactly what our illustrious &#39;want to be&#39; president is doing now. Greatest failurea president in modern times. This film is just dumb and caters for those who still need weening at mothers teetsthey just have never been in the real world. The other question I have is to the producers. Why are you doing this type of moronic film. Money? WHY? It is just a total drag and people who like this movie need to have a serious look in the mirror. Do not support this garbage. At its core I love what this doccie does: it presents some front line perspectives of American soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. That in itself is impressive and at times harrowing.<br/><br/>But then the movie wraps itself in a jacket of awful ideas. The soundtrack feels ripped from every reality show made in the past few years. I almost started to expect a host from something like Fear Factor to show up. The storytelling is also very convoluted. It skims details and personalities, briefly introducing them before running to the next plot point.<br/><br/>While it goes out of its way to highlight the sacrifices made by the soldiers, The Hornet&#39;s Nest gives little clarity on what is going on half of the time. Other than bring across the intensity of firefights, much more isn&#39;t revealed.<br/><br/>But my biggest problems are the cheap narrative tricks. At times moments are made more dramatic than they are, especially if it involves one of the journalists potentially getting shot. This is done twice and both times it&#39;s more a trick of editing than what actually happened.<br/><br/>I&#39;d liken this to Ross Kemp&#39;s Afghanistan doccies: intense, but vapid and a little bit exploitative. You don&#39;t come out of The Hornet&#39;s Nest learning much, other than Americans are great soldiers. If that is the point, this succeeds. But it could have done so much more with its material instead of feeling like a made-for-reality-TV special. The Afghanistan war documentary The Hornet's Nest is a kinetic, immersive experience, particularly in its deeply felt human moments.
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