Man Down
2015
Action / Drama / Thriller / War

Man Down
2015
Action / Drama / Thriller / War
Plot summary
When a U.S. Marine returns home from Afghanistan, he finds that the place he once called home is no better than the battlefields he fought on overseas. Accompanied by his best friend, he searches desperately for the whereabouts of his estranged son and wife. In their search, the two intercept a man carrying vital information about his family.
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This movie broke me.
Definitely not what I expected
Well, I certainly didn't expect this. I think I need to start by saying that this isn't a typical war film whatsoever. As I'm sure you've seen in the reviews prior, this film is made to demonstrate a very powerful message about veterans and PTSD. And it's a message that definitely got to me!
However, this is still a film and needs to be entertaining. And was it? Yes. I will say that how it was filmed was a bit annoying to me, I felt that it was just a bit too jumbled at times, which found it quite hard to understand what's actually going on. So the film has about 4 storylines going on, in past and present and you get like 15 mins of one, so maybe it's a flashback to him being a loving husband and father. Then it quickly switches to some war scene. I feel the director needed to just calm it. But overall it was still entertaining to watch.
You're basically waiting for this one moment to link everything. That moment/twist finally hits and it was genuinely brilliant and really does make the film. I was so impressed by it!
The characters were well done with good arc's and the performances from everyone was fantastic also. Only negative to this is that I feel Gary Oldman was hugely underused. He was hardly in it.
Overall, I think this is a very powerful film with a good message behind it. I would recommend to anyone to watch if they haven't already, just don't watch it expecting some huge war film. Because this isn't that.