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- Unknown
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- needed to precede following dl
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- 105 minutes (Uncut)
- Review Format:
- DVD
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- 2012
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- Predominant Genre:
- War
- Directors:
Directors Mike McCoy Scott Waugh 
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- Premiss:
- Elite soldiers embark on a covert mission to rescue a kidnapped secret agent.
- Themes:
- Advertising | Alienation | Capitalism | Christianity | Communism | Corporate Power | Curative | Emotional repression | Genocide | Globalisation | Identity | Loneliness | Loyalty | Materialism | Narcissism | Nationality | Nostalgia | Parasitism | Political Correctness | Positive Discrimination | Republicanism | Sadomasochism | Schizophrenia | Solipsism | Stereotyping | Terrorism | Totalitarianism | The West | White culture | White people | White privilege | White supremacy
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Empty rhetoric trying to mask abject fear
The usual Caucasian propaganda; serving to misrepresent terrorists and their reasons for existing, as well as failing to show‑up Whites and their alleged commitment to the things they claim matter to them: Honor, freedom, justice and family
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Without any understanding of what matters to terrorists, there can be no preventing their actions through foreseeing them, nor any long‑term cure (from Whites not behaving in such a way as to create terrorists in the first place).
This lack of political context hopelessly-scuppers this drama from ever being great, insightful or incisive; leaving its audience to wonder at men who think White supremacists like Faulkner and Churchill are the epitome of wisdom and, thus, to wonder what the purpose of the War on Terror (WoT) might actually be.
Like the War on Drugs and the War on Black People, the true aim of the master race fantasizing on show here is the control of a world that Whites do not and cannot understand, precisely because they do not and cannot understand it. It is, after all, not necessary to understand what is kept under lock-and-key, because the fear that such controlling behavior indicates is, thereby, minimized and, hopefully, eliminated. Yet, such behavior merely leads Whites to live in a permanent state-of-fear that what they endeavor to control will one day escape and somehow destroy them – despite the potential escapees always being labeled as inferior to Whites.
Despite the White belief that Whites exist to protect the Earth (a Manifest destiny only designed for the benefit of Whites), there is no analysis, here, of what will protect everybody else from Whites. Instead, we are presented with the most authentic combat-sequences yet filmed (as of ), that Whites hope will help conceal the very pointlessness of the very actions depicted.
This sense of White entitlement – and its attendant confusion of personal sacrifice with rational political endeavor – strongly suggests that Whites realize that the WoT is actually unwinnable, since the alleged goals that the less-gullible Whites wish to sacrifice the more-gullible ones for are so vague and ill-defined. This further suggests a White death wish; entailing the corollary belief that it is better to die victorious than to live defeated. Moreover, that traducing enemies is a valid means of defeating them – and will help reduce, or even eliminate, White fear of them. Absurdly and quite contrary to the propagandist intention of the movie, Whites are shown as fighting for very little, since they do not define their terms and appear to be struggling for mere survival rather than for any of the highly-ethical purposes they persistently claim allegiance to.
Such White attitudes produce the inevitable political inertia and personal ennui on show here. Although performed by competent and mostly non‑professional actors, the characters fail to come across as effectively‑individuated. They all espouse the same empty values so that no dramatic conflict is possible to bring out any real differences between men who are little more than state‑sanctioned killing machines. These men do not engage our emotions because they merely exist to espouse a political position, not to encompass a more fuller range of human experience.
Ultimately, Whites wish to protect only their lives, as animated meat, not to protect the moral values which this movie does not show them possessing. There is no admission here that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link or that Whites would, thus, have to openly-admit that they are already the ideologically‑monolithic communistic (& dogmatically-Catholic) culture to stand any chance of prevailing in their WoT – a direct refutation of their claims to being both profoundly‑individualistic and superior to all other cultures.
