Mine 2016

     Marine sniper Sergeant Mike Stevens and his spotter Tommy Maidons are out in the desert.  Their mission is to take out the leader of a terrorist cell.  They have eyes on the leader but he is standing next to the groom in a wedding party.  Mike doesn't want to shoot during the wedding and he doesn't want to shoot the groom.  The mission is aborted and they hastily make a quick exit.  As soon as they leave their position, find themselves in a dangerous location.  They are an in area filled with 33 million blast mines scattered in every direction.  Tommy steps on one of the mines and Mike is standing on one with one foot.  The conditions for life could not be more unfavorable!!  Many undetected mines, scalding heat in the day, limited water and freezing cold in the night.

     OKAY!!  There is just one Marine out in the endless dessert for most of this movie?  He gets rougher looking as each day goes by?  I kept wondering if Mike was really standing on a mine?  Would it be possible for him to leap away from the mine quickly enough to be uninjured?  There must be some kind of alternative to standing on the mine??  I had a lot of questions to occupy my mind so I didn't have to listen to the soundtrack!!  2 /12* (This movie is so-so)

106 min, War directed by Fabio Guaglione with Armie Hammer, Annabell Wallis, Tom Cullen, Cling Dyer, Geoff Bell, Juliet Aubrey, Ines Pinar Mille, Luka Peros, Daniel Sandoval, Agustin Rodriguez, Manuel Medero.

Note:  Imdb 6.0 out of 10, 16% critic 41% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2 ½*, Amazon 2.9* out of 5* with 54 reviews, Metacritic 40 out of 100 with 10 critics.

Special Note:  Filmed in Canary Islands and Barcelona, Spain.  Because of concerns about piracy, the original English language version was not released in Italy until May 2017.  Wider distribution was April 2017.  There are a lot of mistakes with the radio.  It can’t be charged from the cell phone solar charger and it doesn’t have a USB input.  The power switch doesn’t illuminate and the radio doesn’t transmit on the displayed frequency.