I like how this guy breaks down his ratings at the end of every review as to why they received each grade. Most don’t do that.

Former combat engineer here only thing to say is that mines can be effectively used above ground, and have been. One example is when we invaded Iraq, Iraqi forces would scatter them on highways on overpasses and bridges. This was effective in slowing us down. They would be easy to defeat but if all you need is a bit of time, it works.

this dude is so british. Also loved the "various parts of the middle east"

Getting blown up by a landline (landmine) right 1 meter to your left, flying 5 meters and then just getting up is peak Hollywood.

I used to know one of these guys he was in the Falklands and ended up being a post master in north Wales like this gent he was softly spoken and so calm totally not what the movies show you

I think with the Jarhead scene a lot of the „unrealistic“ details where done intentionally, like they don‘t get to cover because they haven‘t trained or been trained in a long time and I think it is an artistic decision to let him walk into the line of fire and also to make them raise their weapons instantanously.

Would love to have gotten his thoughts on Generation Kill (underrated show for sure)

You can tell he’s a pro because he actually empathizes with the experience of being shot at and thinks it through, showing that the actors are indeed portraying a realistic natural reaction, even for pros. That’s so important, and shows why the film feels so real.

Mines: singular purpose to be buried and incognito. Mines in that scene: scattered around like easter eggs in plain view

0:10 - Introduction 0:33 - Three Kings [1999] 2:38 - Sicario: Day of the Soldado [2018] 5:46 - Rambo III [1988] 7:57 - Jarhead [2005] 10:02 - Bravo Two Zero [1999] 11:23 - Megan Leavey [2017] 13:37 - Lone Survivor [2013] 15:24 - War Machine [2017]

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I worked with the Royal Marines while working as a soldier in Kandahar with the U.S. 101st Airborne, Rakkasans. You guys were a great bunch to work with. I caught the spacing issue too. One IED would take half the convoy out if you aren't properly maintaining distance. To have high level weapons training but no vehicle training in terms of basic tactics killed it for me.

Sicario is just great! The first one's a little better but the second is still really good imo. Really hope they eventually get around to making the third one..

5:50 Ever since the Rambo franchise started, I always wondered why Rambo would be in shirtless mode, in almost all of the first 3 movies...if not the sunburn or malaria mosquitoes, nothing ever bothered him. In 'First Blood', thanks to the cold, wet winter setting, he at least rustled up a canvas sleeveless top (for a while). Thankfully, in the last two of the JR outings, he was in (tight) T-shirts.

I thought it was pretty insightful when he lets us know that the military lingo for driving through something was "Driving through it".

Movie explosions rarely depict any shrapnel. In my experience, in Vietnam, that woman would have been killed or severly wounded, along with other members of the patrol. Real people don't just scamper along amongst explosions, rather, they get crippled by the shrapnel that flys out of almost all explosives. All mines are surrounded by metal. Also, far too much flames. That helicopter would go down, yes, but nothing on it would cause a massive explosion that totally hides the airframe while in mid-air.

This is the best breakdown I've seen... tactics, weapons and effects comments are on point.. only miss is the Jake Glyngell not wearing a helmet or floppy... heat stroke and sunburn... kills you as surely as perforation or visceration.

The Jarhead part, I found interesting. Because that movie is based on the service of an actual Marine, he wrote a book about his experiences in Desert Storm. And if I'm not mistaken, he was an advisor on the movie to make sure it all went the way he remembered.

Always funny watching a professional dissect these things. I am impressed by Gareth Timmins being so low key, modest and sensible.

Insider not only finds the people who know what they're looking at, but also most of the time the people who are articulate and pleasant to listen to. This lad is a keeper, Insider! Please do bring him back.

A quick note about the Lutchrell scene. It wasn't a hostage mission, but a recovery. I work with a guy who is friends with one of the pilots that recovered him. Air Force search and rescue conducted it and it was at night, so smoke would've been unnecessary anyway.

Super bummed they didn’t include Steven Seagal’s Sniper: Special Ops

Hasty, surface laid minefields were a commonly used employment back in the high intensity warfare doctrines of the 80s-90s. They were not used so much to destroy equipment as they were to make you want to drive someplace else (that was better defended, typically).

These military expert reviews are always great.

Police Officer break down police scenes and Firefighter breaks fire fighter scenes.

I could legit listen to this dude all day...love his to the point explanations and doing without talking down to viewers like we're all idiots as some do..great vid love to see more from this guy

Two thoughts that came to mind: 1. For the Rambo III section, it's always amusing to bring up how the movie is basically "the quintessential American hero helps out the Mujahadeen" given what happened afterward. 2. 11:50 if you were close enough to an IED powerful enough to THROW you 10 feet away, making the landing in less than two pieces seems like a noteworthy feat.

Great video, yet again. How you manage to find such specific experts is great

I just love how calm and soft spoken this man is compared to what he is capable of doing. Great break downs with lots of detail and no drama whatsoever. I am quite close to a friend of mine who is in the Indian Army (NSG). Some of the stories he shares has so much violence and stress that it makes us feel so humble and yet envy him for the job he has compared to our's. The guy is so well spoken, calm and composed all the time. Such a contrast from the situations he's been in. I've heard similar movie break downs with him and it has always brought a laugh or two. Great times.

I’m a 24 year Tank Commander that trained to counter a Russian advance through Eastern Europe and then spent 03-05 and 08-09 in Iraq. During that time I did PSD work, was a 50 cal gunner, conducted patrols both mounted and dismounted. I love your breakdown of these movies.

Should've done Generation Kill.

this dude is badass, never heard of him until today but id like to check that book out

Nice lad. And went into more observations and details than some guests usually do. Is just hard to breakthrough scenes when sometimes some things are done intentionally and you'd only know in full context.

This guy has great delivery.

Spot on for most of it. The female Marine one, being that close to an IED explosion she would've been toast. I know that from experience. Her only saving grace would've been is if the IED was buried too deep and the ground absorbed most of the blast wave and shrapnel, but she would've been so messed up being that close she's being medevac'd on the spot. The smoke scene in Lone Survivor serves several purposes 1. is to mark the landing zone but you never announce what color you are using. That is because an enemy listening in can pop the same colored smoke and confuse the pilot. Inside you say something to the effect of "LZ marked with smoke" an the pilot will respond with "roger, I see blue smoke" or something and then you confirm or deny. Or what color to use has already been briefed before the mission. The 2nd reason reason using smoke is to give the pilot a visual on wind direction and wind speed when they're coming in for a landing so they can position the helicopter for a clean landing and take off. He is correct though that in any rescue attempt as the person being rescued you are not simply going to be asked is you are so-and-so. But you are not going to be asked your rank and serial (social security) number either since that is easily obtainable information. Before my unit left for Iraq, each one of us was videotaped in a 5 minute long interview session asking personal identifying questions like what street you grew up on, the name of your little league baseball team, your best friend in the 4th grade, or if you've ever been to Disney. We also had to fill out a multipage questionnaire with similar questions. The purpose behind that was for quick identification on the ground by the rescue team and if there were any doubts about your identity enough information to be screened by an intelligence team.

Much respect thanks for your and all Vets. service.

16:00 As a former service member I'm gonna disagree with him on the immature chatter. You're working with 18 and 19 year old kids sometimes. That's the general population. He seemed to be some kind of specialist, so I imagine his platoon was far more mature and extensively trained compared to the average marine. 🤷🏽‍♂️ People give lip all the time when they're given orders by someone they don't like, especially the young ones.

The seriousness and the look in his eyes as he's observing these clips really gives off that he's seen death in his face.

The immature banter of the Marines was pretty realistic. In Fallujah we were so young and so much more to learn.

"Do they have weapons?" We called that 'playing lawyer ball' from a line in the old animated show, "King of the Hill." The gist is that if JAG would likely be okay with it in a comfortable, safe room, months after the fact, you're probably good to go to pull the trigger

When he was mentioning the chatter being immature and unrealistic. I can confirm that to be VERY TRUE. At times during a mission when being attacked, sometimes military bearing does go out of the window and mostly due to an overwhelming attack and being scared. It was up to us senior NCO's to keep things in tact!

In that particular cut scene from Rambo the helicopter is a Gazelle, but the other one that appears on the movie is as puma. I blame the editor

it honestly amazes how these guys are very well spoken about everything that’s happening. It also amazes me how many people in these comments have some what experience and can relate to the guy in the video. Would love to hear some stories,super Intrigued.

You guys always find the best people. This guy is awesome

Underrated movie people should watch is Kajaki. Great film about the dangers of IEDs

Very interesting to hear about trained vs untrained response but also about the instinctual responses to protect yourself

Cracking effort Royal

Worked logistics down range. His assessment of the convoy is spot on in Sicario is spot on. Idk the dozens of times we've had to deal with complex attacks like this and they're always crazy.

This guy knows what he's talking about! Would love to have a drink and hear some of the stories he has to tell!

As a Cavalry Scout that served in Iraq, hats off to the Brits for sharing their hot tea! Strong hot tea in the middle of a war zone is surprisingly refreshing!

hats off to Gareth - we appreciate all you have done ,sir

Thank you for you time sir!

Love the book mate!

The immature chatter bit was basically my army experience haha

Best review I've seen so far in the series from some one who's been there done it lived and knows what they're talking about.

He’s so nice discussing horrific and terrifying things!

11:05 the same scene included movement drills and eventually getting to cover. Would've been interested in input on "cooking" grenades, playing dead and having a compass attached to a weapon from that. "Bravo Two Zero - SAS Battle Scene" on KZfaq.

Coming from an Iraq war marine veteran, the chatter between the Marines is absolutely accurate. We talked to each other like that in combat a lot. It was not protracted sentences, but quick no holds bar sentences.

Nice video as always!

One of the best I have seen. I learned a lot.

As a marine i take offense to him saying that we’re to mature to swear. What was inaccurate was how little swearing there was. If he wants proof just watch Generation Kill. The most accurate show about Marine culture out there.

These are US Marines and "The chatter is very immature". Nah as a Marine that is very very accurate... well honestly it's too tame.

Very informative and a little more detailed than most of these video's. I did miss Generation Kill, The Wall and American Sniper, was hoping to get some more insight into these 3.

One of the best reviews yet.

One veto. I was in the Federal German Army when Rambo III came out, and my father served with the Luftwaffe in World War 2, so I was genetically fascinated by aircrafts from early childhood on. In this movie does in fact appear a Puma as a Mil 24 Hind (though the broad cockpit gave it away immediately), but the little helicopter shown in 06:28 is a modified Aerospatiale SA341 Gazelle. As far as I know nobody is perfectly certain which kind of Soviet airframe was to be represented this way, because even the Kamov designs are quite different.

In the rescue of Marcus Luttrell, they asked him for his favourite superhero, which is: Spiderman, and he was not held hostage, but protected by the villagers who were willing to to pay with their lives to protect him.

The desert ambush scene in the hurt locker is a thing of beauty

Good video the guy is very calm and just saying what his perspective is and his opinions which I like.

The US is not a signatory of the Ottawa Convention but neither have China, Pakistan, India or Russia signed either.

Soft spoken because a total badass never needs to raise their voice.

Great vid!

Excellent breakdown

Thing about the smoke scene. Red is typically used as a "waive off" color. It's tossed when a helicopter is coming in to tell them it's not safe. Typically the aircrew would be in radio contact with the ground element the entire time before landing, and then positively confirm smoke color. Smoke not only marks the LZ, but it is helpful for the aircrew to guage wind direction and wind speed. In the scenes with the Marines (like Jarhead) what you pointed out as bad tactics and gave low ratings was actually fairly realistic. If you watched any combat footage from the early 2000s Iraq war or Gulf War. Many were very young men, 18, 19, 20 year olds with little experience. Regular grunts aren't/weren't as well trained as Commandos are. The scene from Jarhead is a bit out of context because it cuts off the part where they realize the camel men were harmless and that they were posturing up for no reason. At the time the film took place, the US still really havent been training local cultural norms, posturing/body language, and de-escilation yet. There's a bit of authority bias here because "we would never do it that way, therefore it isn't realistic" Doesn't take into account that everyone's skill level, experience, and knowledge is different.

I can't find one but do you have one of these that rates 19th century line infantry tactics like the battles of Iswandwala, Rourke's Drift, Custer's Last Stand etc where you see them creating boxes and falling back or advancing by rank?

Really needed that hurt locker sniping scene in this. Great video nonetheless!

I like the fact that they mixed the anti-personnel mines with those anti-tank mines in the 3-kings clip. As awkwardly exposed as the placement was, the attention to detail in mixing those together which is a tactic used by many militaries to prevent disarming of anti-tank mines.

I really appreciate the way he can break down highly technical details in a way which makes a layperson understand them. That is the mark of a real professional

I was actually hoping In The Army Now would be included because it was based in desert warfare. And it’s my favorite army movie of all time (and what actually opened me up to the idea of joining).

Loved the video. As an aside, nice Omega Watch

Love these!

Whoa awesome!

Speaking for the Lone Survivor clip; My first deployment I was given a sheet with multiple questions and provided the answers specifically for a situation like this. Questions could be something like, "What color was your first car?", if you're married "What's your (spouse's) middle name?, etc. The rescue team would have these questions and your answers to verify your identity. They wouldn't just ask "Are you this person?" and believe you because you moved your head. But this is a Hollywood recreation of real events and have a specified amount of time to tell a story.

Great video :)

Love the videos

0:33 Scene from "Three Kings" (1999) 3/10 2:37 Scene from "Sicario: Day of the Soldado" (2018) 9/10 9:45 Scene from "Rambo III" (1988) 5/10 7:56 Scene from "Jarhead" (2005) 5/10 10:01 Scene from "Bravo Two Zero" (1999) 4/10 11:22 Scene from "Megan Leavey" (2017) 7/10 13:36 Scene from "Lone Survivor" (2013) 9/10 15:23 Scene from "War Machine” (2017) 5/10

I 100% expected some Generation Kill scenes in this....

Cool, some of these movies I never heard of. Now I gotta find them and watch them.

Hey, I've read his book. Really interesting. 🙂

BRING THIS GUY BACK!!!!

Who else pauses the vid and makes a note of the movies he rated 8 & above aha! Hes just great I like his quiet professional tone. Nice to see some movies make the effort to get things accurate. At 6:30 that is a Gazelle helicopter (French design) modded to look like a gunship. The movie DOES have a modded Puma so my guess is the editors dropped the Puma footage - but left in his feedback about it? Just a guess.

That was a good review.

having read the book Lone Survivor, Marcus states in it that they had Rangers combing the mountain in the immediate days after Operation Redwing went catastrophic. they didn’t have or give themselves the time to insert teams like he suggests, like they normally would, sensing that time was of the essence.

Some times, surface laid ordinance are visually obvious to redirect course of movement. It's an old tactic to get your opponent to move in the direction you want. In Iraq, we knew this and COC (change of course) would be initiated. We had a saying, "If it don't quack, it's wack".

I've always wondered why no one had sunglasses in Jarhead.

Great video

Great info

"I think the percentage of success that it would get from doing what it does would be very, very small." I don't know why that was so funny. 😂

5:30 she’s a civi Bruva and not military trained. Huge respect & ❤️ 🇬🇧

Rambo doesn't need no body armor. He has plot armor!

he is doing it really really well!