Movie scrapes the surface of ok with bouts of exaggeration and over the top situation. There is an active op which has gone horribly wrong, the soldiers and Commanding officer at the command center are engrossed in a basketball match like it was a frat house. Operative in imminent danger is trying to reach the command centre to abort the scheduled bombing and the only available mode of communication a landline, which nobody is answering and they even turn off the phone ringer. Really !!! In the real world that would be dereliction of duty which would be an automatic court martial with a serious punishment to go with it. Another instance, there is a bomb delivered by a drone where there is a huge ball of fire and all the bad guys die but the green turf is completely intact. No crater, no nothing. Next, there is a bunker busting bomb that goes off and all the bad guys lay dead or grievously wounded but the captured US Delta force soldiers miraculously are unhurt. Liam Hemsworth for most of movie is a bumbling, stumbling, wet behind the ears soldier. He gets captured and rescued, all of a sudden he turns into an ingenious soldier converting water bottle into a receiver for communication. Quite the transformation. You have to be extremely naive or stupid to overlook all of this. However the reason given by the producers of the movie, why the film didn't do too well is due to poor marketing. Believe me, you could have 24/7 ads on electronic billboards in Times square and on prime time tv yet, that wouldn't have saved this movie.
Review of Land of Bad
