Though I am a huge Scott Adkins fan, I won't sit here and make excuses for this movie being subpar. I am very well researched in US military tactics, as well as covert intelligence and CIA/CSS, CO-INTEL, counterterrorism, and special forces operations. I am also very much familiar and experienced with guns.
Whenever people like myself, and people with military training and law enforcement and gun owners watch this kind of movie, we expect to have an as accurate as possible depiction of reality.
When I watch high powered rifles being fired with exactly ZERO recoil, a lack of barrel movement, and ZERO smoke coming from the ejection port or the casings as they are ejected, I get upset.
When I see these guys firing Kalashnikov's on full auto, and not even shake the smallest amount, I get upset. If anyone wants to argue this point, I suggest you look up a video of an AK47 being fired on full auto. After 3 shots the recoil is so strong that the barrel lifts so far that it ends up pointing at the Heavens. The AK47 kicks like an elephant. Unacceptable!
When I see Scott fire almost 100 rounds from a 30-round 5.56 mag without any reloads, I get mad.
When I see that Scott is using the standard M4-A1, I get upset. Navy SEALS are incredibly precise with their weapons platforms, I get mad. The variant of this weapon that SEALS and SWCC carry, is the M4-A1 carbine SOPMOD Block-1 modified.
When I see a SEALS team and not one of them has an underslung M203 40mm grenade launcher, I get mad. In reality, as soon as a large attacking armed force assaults your position with rapid violence of action, all clumped up together in a 20 foot radius, you automatically have several operators pop a few 40mm grenade at the target, the instant you see them, and that would have wiped out almost all the bad guys before they even have a chance to carry out the assault, I get mad.
When I see what are supposed to be highly trained and battle hardened SOF security detail that protect our embassies and CIA covert overseas prison sites, that run around like a bunch of idiots with no tactical awareness, I get mad.
Whenever people like myself, and people with military training and law enforcement and gun owners watch this kind of movie, we expect to have an as accurate as possible depiction of reality.
When I watch high powered rifles being fired with exactly ZERO recoil, a lack of barrel movement, and ZERO smoke coming from the ejection port or the casings as they are ejected, I get upset.
When I see these guys firing Kalashnikov's on full auto, and not even shake the smallest amount, I get upset. If anyone wants to argue this point, I suggest you look up a video of an AK47 being fired on full auto. After 3 shots the recoil is so strong that the barrel lifts so far that it ends up pointing at the Heavens. The AK47 kicks like an elephant. Unacceptable!
When I see Scott fire almost 100 rounds from a 30-round 5.56 mag without any reloads, I get mad.
When I see that Scott is using the standard M4-A1, I get upset. Navy SEALS are incredibly precise with their weapons platforms, I get mad. The variant of this weapon that SEALS and SWCC carry, is the M4-A1 carbine SOPMOD Block-1 modified.
When I see a SEALS team and not one of them has an underslung M203 40mm grenade launcher, I get mad. In reality, as soon as a large attacking armed force assaults your position with rapid violence of action, all clumped up together in a 20 foot radius, you automatically have several operators pop a few 40mm grenade at the target, the instant you see them, and that would have wiped out almost all the bad guys before they even have a chance to carry out the assault, I get mad.
When I see what are supposed to be highly trained and battle hardened SOF security detail that protect our embassies and CIA covert overseas prison sites, that run around like a bunch of idiots with no tactical awareness, I get mad.