2014 · war · action
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire
Directed by Don Michael Paul1h 43m2014
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a Navy SEAL flags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation of international importance: they must help an Afghan woman famous for her defiance of the Taliban escape the country. Without tanks or air support, Merrimette and his team will need all the courage and firepower they can muster to fight their way across the war-torn country and shepherd the woman to safety.
Our read: Jarhead 2: Field of Fire (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded war · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme war / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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