mr_impatient_5 Reviews

Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood (2005 Video Game)

Road To Hill 30 was just a bit better

[17 November 2005]

This game is the second best war game to ever be made so far. I think the first would be Brothers in Arms: Road to hill 30. Anyway in this game you take control of Hartsock (the soldier that was promoted in Brothers in Arms Road to hill 30 at the end). You play in Hartsock's point of view not Baker's. Hartsock is being interviewed because of his promotion and he tells the story as you play through it. Though the story of road to hill 30 was better this is more realistic. You can take ammo from your troops and the enemy's now react to what you do so flanking them will be much harder.

Excellent game 9/10

Balls of Steel (2005–2008)

They Have Balls

[26 October 2005]

I think these people have balls of steel. like chatting up a girls boy friend right next to her, stapling a paper to your tongue, interviewing celebrities with a dildo or going into a t.v shop and putting a video on the main screen so that on every t.v it says "THIS SHOP IS S**T". It would be great if a movie was made of this. People should watch massive balls of steel which is the highlights of the series best event. The best stunt was putting a blindfold on a guide dog which was performed by the annoying devil. That was mean but funny. This is the one show that can match jackass

Watch this, its painfully funny!

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

The Best War Film Ever

[9/10 · 29 August 2005]

What Steven Spielberg has done with "Saving Private Ryan" is simultaneously craft an enormously successful depiction of World War II and a touching story that places a platoon of bewildered soldiers in a world of frantic pacing -- a startling world of gunfire and proceeding death. The constant movement of the shaky hand-held camera acts as a first person perspective -- we are not merely viewing the movie, but participating in it. This is perhaps as close as we will ever get to realizing the unadulterated fear those soldiers must have felt as they drew nearer to the beaches of France. It is one of the greatest war films ever put on celluloid, its scope arguably larger than any other in the genre, its conflict superb.

Black Hawk Down (2001)

One Of the best War Films Ever

[9/10 · 28 August 2005]

As a war film, "Black Hawk Down" is first rate. It's exciting, well paced, and full of lots of action. Director Ridley Scott proves to be at home with the adrenalin rush of modern technological warfare, piling on the firefights, helicopter crashes, and bloody carnage. Continuing the visceral tradition of war films post-"Saving Private Ryan", "Black Hawk Down" scatters body parts round the screen like confetti.

The problem is that its subject - American soldiers fighting Somali Muslims - is too close to the current world situation to suit a no-brains action story. In a belated attempt to mould the film to suit the post-September 11th climate, the film makers have added a series of opening and closing titles that desperately try to say something about the Battle of Mogadishu's wider significance, but these simply seem hastily written and ill advised.

"Black Hawk Down" doesn't so much lose sight of the political factors behind the action, as never actually notice them until after the event making it less a film about the American experience in Somalia than a patriotic airbrushing of what was actually America's worst day of combat since Vietnam.