I saw this with three friends and they all loved it, but i couldn't get past the corny dialogue, and the character development didn't make sense at all. The young woman, Jesse, and stoner journalist have full blown panic attacks and are puking on themselves while Kirsten continues to hold it down and then out of nowhere the roles reverse at the last moment at the end and Kirsten freezes when we've been shown that she's so experienced and numb to these types of events. Pure nonsense. Additionally, they are covering a small skirmish with people wearing plain clothes and minimal body armor, while the journalists are fully vested and wearing helmets, then at the end of the film when they are covering fully soldiers, with equipment aplenty, the journalists are wearing minimal gear. A lot of small plotlines and basic story points werent fully developed and kept taking me out of the film. Was looking forward to this too and was sadly disappointed.
The cinematography was great, although the lenses they shot on had a lot of chromatic aberrations which were distracting because they were wide open a lot of the time. The editing was great and never felt like it lingered too long on any shots. Sound design was good except for this moment when they're at the Western front camp and there was helicopter sound effects blaring for was too long. Technically a great film, just really fell flat with the insincere dialogue and poor character development.
The cinematography was great, although the lenses they shot on had a lot of chromatic aberrations which were distracting because they were wide open a lot of the time. The editing was great and never felt like it lingered too long on any shots. Sound design was good except for this moment when they're at the Western front camp and there was helicopter sound effects blaring for was too long. Technically a great film, just really fell flat with the insincere dialogue and poor character development.