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Killermosquito, bring your kid to see it. There is swearing and violence, but it is not gratuitous in any way.

I went to see this movie last night, and came away very impressed.

I can’t tell you how refreshing it was to see our military personnel portrayed in a positive, non-stereotypical way.

There was blood, splattering of wounds and so on, but I only saw one part that I thought was fairly graphic, and if you even blinked, you would miss it.

For those of you who are familiar with firearms, you might appreciate (as I did) the different way that gun fire was portrayed audibly. I recognize that many Freepers with far more experience may disagree with me, so I will humbly defer to them in this

This definitely wasn’t Rambo.

There wasn’t a lot of spraying gunfire (at least from the Navy SEALs), and the ammunition handling seemed more in line with the US Navy SEALs that it did with a Hollywood action movie. But the gunfire itself was interesting. Again, this is my opinion… but almost every Hollywood movie you see that has gunfire in it, the sound is very, er, “trebly” for lack of a better description. It always sounds somewhat staccato with the treble turned all the way up.

It seemed to me that the gunfire in this movie very much had a thumping bass component to it, which I found very interesting, and different as well as authentic. (I have a Garand, and to me, it booms more than it cracks...)

I also found the end of the movie very moving. I think, if you have ever been involved in one of those ceremonies personally, it carries even more weight. Another interesting thing for me was seeing the credits of US Navy SEALs killed in action.

I know that we have lost a lot of our best in the last decade, in training accidents and actual warfare, but see that many of them was a little bit of a stunner for me.

It reminded me of the 1st time I saw “The Wall” in Washington DC.

It was early in the morning, and there wasn’t very many people there at the time. I got to walk along from one end to the other without having someone walk in front of me.

I begin by looking at all the names on one panel and realized the toll by being able to physically make the extension to however many panels there were.

As I walked along, I tried to read one name off of each panel, but even that was too much. There were so many.

And it hit me all at once, a wave of emotion.

That was a little bit of the feeling I got when I watched the credits roll with the names of all those US Navy SEALs killed in action.