To clarify, this is simply incorrect.As the movie unravels its about how 'bad' our country is and corrupt and that our Government had orchastrated geneocide....for oil.
Yes, Glover's character mis-used a powerful patriotic symbol. How does that demean the Medal of Honor?1) I think the movie platform used the MOH in a demeaning way: play on princples of those who have principles vs the non-principled use of the MOH
Bob Lee says yes - that is, per your own argument here, the principled action. 'Attempting to take down the rogue sniper.'MW a principled character? So I suppose if a Senator or the Secretary of Defense asked you to set-up to snipe a sniper who is a rogue -pretentious and a set up- you'd say NO! Or would you say yes thinking all the while your about to waste a rogue who's taken the law into his own hands thus protecting you country...
Who does Mark Wahlberg 'waste'? He kills people working directly for Glover's organization - no American soldiers, citizens or police die. Not a single one.NO... the MW character wastes his own, who are **unknowingly** protecting the crime bosses, the truly guilty....
Occam's razor - which is the more elegant (and simplest to write) solution: large parts of the White House are involved in a conspiracy to kill an Archbishop framing Swagger, etc. - or Glover name-dropped the SoD for credibility and the AG is pissed off at his many actions (but can't directly sanction 'finishing the job')?CYA... especially when the AG gave the implicit go ahead for Swagger to finish the job!
He seems like a nice guy.As a teenager, Wahlberg participated in several acts of violence for which he was arrested, later claiming to have been arrested 20-25 times by the Boston Police Department as a youth.[4] At 15 he harassed a group of African American school children on a field trip by throwing rocks (causing injuries) and shouting racist epithets.[5] While under the influence of angel dust when he was 16 (and again using racist language) he knocked a middle aged Vietnamese man unconscious with a wooden stick and left another Vietnamese man permanently blind in one eye. For these crimes Wahlberg was arrested for attempted murder, pled guilty to assault, and spent 45 days in jail at Boston's Deer Island House of Correction.[6][7] In yet another incident when he was 21 Wahlberg fractured the jaw of a neighbour in an unprovoked attack.[8]
Browning said:Well, I wasn't going to see it in the theater, I was going to wait for video.
Now I'm not even going to rent it when it hits Blockbuster, I'll just wait until it's free on cable and until I'm bored someday, maybe then I'll watch it. Really it just looks like a generic modern shoot um up, where the man from nowhere who's trained to kill like an expert is running around doing manly things and throwing in quick witted remarks as he kills the "bad guys" action movie that substitutes stunts and explosions for a plot and dialogue.
Sometimes I'm in the mood for that, but usually I like a plot with my movie.