The Siege of Jadotville (2016)

I love this movie so much

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Just caught this on Netflix. I wasn't going to watch it but then I read the reviews here on IMDb. I'm glad I did. What can I say? Superb film! True story, lots of tension throughout the film, lots of action, great script, great acting, and well directed. Just yes!

Surrounded for five days by a larger force and no one died? I'm not surprised they were called the Jadotville Jacks. This is a propaganda movie to make it seem like these guys fought bravely and were misunderstood, but let's be honest, it seems like there was a good reason to claim they were cowards. We might not have heard the whole story. I think they just didn't want to die for Jadotville and took a few days to contemplate surrendering. The so-called casualties were probably self-inflicted. A lot stinks about this movie and it's sad that many of the younger people, gun nuts, war fetishists can't see this.

An excellent war drama about a little known episode involving UN Peace Keepers from the Irish Defense Forces. The film is excellent on many levels including acting, direction and location. The combat action is on par or better than in any of the Hollywood War films. The unknown cast is superb as is the filming. One of the very best Netflix films - not to be missed.

Another brilliant production from Netflix, they are certainly flying high right now - great production, writing and acting. This is, at its core, a superb combat movie and even more interesting in that respect because equipment wise things hadn't really moved on from WWII. The alternate story is one of self serving, self aggrandizing politicians - the antecedents of those we see everywhere today. These miserable cretins were willing to sacrifice good men for a stated reason of avoiding world war - of course this is BS as it always is, the careers of these rat like parasitical creatures go from strength to strength (and wealth to more wealth) while honorable servicemen are left to languish. You are left amazed at how little ever changes - and I doubt it ever will.