![]() When the film can't even show you the guys getting out of the helicopter you wonder what you're in for. I reckon the BBC blew their budget on location filming in South Africa and the SAS training undertaken by the crew everything does look cheap here, and for a film in which the effect largely depends on the realism, that isn't great. In fact the only good thing about the whole production is Sean Bean's casting as McNab, once again Bean puts in a bravura performance, and his convincing turn here is the only nugget of gold in a whole mess of a production. It strikes me that the excellent book by McNab was only skimmed superficially and then filmed, and certainly this television film barely resembles the riveting book which inspired it. Cheap-as-chips BBC war movie is hopeless from the start thanks to a ludicrous lack of realism, despite McNab's presence as military adviser behind the scenes.
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