Urban-Warfare Expert Rates 11 Urban-Warfare Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It?

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Retired US Army officer and urban-warfare researcher John Spencer rates 11 urban-warfare scenes in movies and TV shows for realism.
Spencer breaks down the accuracy of ambushes and battles in open areas in "Black Hawk Down" (2001), with Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, and Tom Sizemore; "Fast Five" (2011), with Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel, and Paul Walker; "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" (2016), starring John Krasinski; and "Mosul" (2019).
He looks at fighting in buildings and close-quarters combat in "Extraction" (2020), starring Chris Hemsworth; "American Sniper" (2014), starring Bradley Cooper; and "The Raid: Redemption" (2011), starring Iko Uwais.
Spencer addresses the effects of urban warfare on civilians and cities in "Captain America: Civil War" (2016), with Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., and Scarlett Johansson. He also looks at urban operations during World War II in "Fury" (2014), with Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf; and "Enemy at the Gates"(2001), with Jude Law and Ed Harris.
Spencer is a US Army combat veteran and has been on two combat deployments to Iraq. He is the chair of urban-warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point and the author of "Understanding Urban Warfare," "Connected Soldiers," and "The Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender." Spencer is also the host of the podcast "Urban Warfare Project."
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Urban-Warfare Expert Rates 11 Urban-Warfare Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

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@AngeloBarovierSD 11 ай бұрын

I know he didn’t like the technical accuracy of MOSUL but I encourage people to watch it. It’s an intense film, based on real-life events, and for once the protagonists aren’t Westerners in a foreign land. It’s a raw film, with people of grey moral character, but its aesthetic and performances are well worth the watch.

@Trojanfan666 11 ай бұрын

Exactly, but he is comparing it to how westerners would be tactically when the whole movie is based on the local fighters... i don't get him mentioning bomb sniffing dogs when that is not how the local fighters would be

@AngeloBarovierSD 11 ай бұрын

@@Trojanfan666 Also true! Moreover, the main team were tactical police who transitioned into warfighters. I’m sure they were rough around certain edges. Either way, such an intense and visceral film.

@unluckytourist 11 ай бұрын

The breakdowns are often like this - "this is inaccurate to how we would do this" vs "this is the incorrect way of doing it, but it happened this way". There is a Green Beret on KZfaq who reviewed Mosul and said it was accurate in many ways to how the local forces he worked with behaved.

@Poodlestroop 11 ай бұрын

Mosul is an excellent film about a battle that really deserves to be remembered - glad to see it getting some appreciation.

@RL0319 11 ай бұрын

True

@michaelskipper3375 11 ай бұрын

It feels funny hearing a modern MOUT instructor talking about tactics we learned when we first began in Afghanistan and Iraq and had to deal with more urban combat.

@ericmason1285 11 ай бұрын

Do you mean outdated?

@lamorandrews2358 11 ай бұрын

We’re literally in a museum bro.

@bostonrailfan2427 11 ай бұрын

his bio blurb says “researcher”…i doubt he actually taught anyone anything especially as an officer

@unluckytourist 11 ай бұрын

@@bostonrailfan2427 He was on Andy Stumpf's podcast. He was actually working with some group that was advising Ukrainians on urban defence in the weeks leading up to the invasion. He was a Captain with deployments to Iraq, and was basically taking experience from that era and relaying it to them. Some stuff I never even thought about, like either removing street signs or deliberately swapping them with other signs.

@bostonrailfan2427 11 ай бұрын

@@unluckytourist “expert” at only one narrow period of time, ignorant of anything else…his WWII claims were way off from what experts said. he’s like so many others: “expert” but has zero clue about what he’s seeing that isn’t in his narrow time period if expertise

@robo5013 11 ай бұрын

About mouse holing: my grandfather talked about his experiences in urban warfare during WWII and said you never used the door but made your own. The standard procedure they used was to put a satchel charge against a wall and blow a hole in it. Then two soldiers would throw grenades. After the grenades went of one with a tommy gun would spray all 30 rounds into the room. While reloading two would unload their M1's. Then the tommy gunner would step in and look for staircases and spray them at the same time into the ceiling above, which is the floor of the second level. He said that the Germans would often stand just above the hole that they made and wait to hear when they moved in then spray down through the floor with their sub machine guns. After the tommy gunner finished his clip and moved out to reload the rest of the squad would be moving in to secure the building. Of course in all this they didn't usually have to worry about civilians.

@edi9892 11 ай бұрын

I've heard that even early , AT RPGs were constantly abused as either anti-personnel grenade launchers, or to make mouseholes. In that case, they may shoot below a window as that's already a hole and underneath is probably a radiator (which would stop overpenetrating rockets/grenades). Also, civilians made a lot of mouseholes, especially linking up basements of the entire quarter. You definitely don't want to be buried by rubble after an air raid...

@spydernyne984 11 ай бұрын

The Thompson gunner would have a magazine, not a clip.

@robo5013 11 ай бұрын

@@spydernyne984 During, and after, the war soldiers called them clips, mainly because an M1 uses a clip to speed load the rifle and so they called anything that put bullets into a gun a clip. While you are technically correct I was using the words that my grandfather used to tell the story.

@jw5931 11 ай бұрын

@@spydernyne984oh shut up

@edi9892 11 ай бұрын

@@spydernyne984 I don't know why but pretty much every non-native speaker of English gets this wrong. I was one of them long ago...

@PeteRouse17 11 ай бұрын

Would love to see this guy break down the ambush scene from “Clear and Present Danger” - especially seeing as though they allegedly use it as training for ambush scenarios in the CIA. The other one would be the street shootout from “Heat” and the use of police tactics and cover there, as well as Val Kilmer’s flawless reload technique.

@AngeloBarovierSD 11 ай бұрын

True! I’m also surprised we didn’t see SICARIO or THE KINGDOM in the mix. Even the kidnapping scene in MAN ON FIRE, though I can see how that’s not necessarily “warfare” in the strictest sense. But hey, they include a F&F movie so… Maybe we’ll get a part 2!

@Aerial_Imaging 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, they need to make a part 2.

@yellow73914 11 ай бұрын

I was hoping for them to review that scene from "Clear and Present Danger" as well!

@KevFrost 11 ай бұрын

Agree, a wonderfully suspenseful build to a terrifying kill zone

@gen3kali877 11 ай бұрын

Val Kilmer is forever a legend because of Heat.

@82dorrin 11 ай бұрын

Do NOT stand in the middle of the street!!! It's generally a bad idea no matter the circumstances.

@sixravenx 11 ай бұрын

That always makes me think of Generation Kill when the reporter needs to cross the street under fire and runs in a bizarre serpentine pattern while everyone else laughs at him

@cojanemanuel8319 11 ай бұрын

Exactly! This advice is useful even in non combat situations.

@solokom 11 ай бұрын

In German cities, there are streets marked as "Spielstraße" meaning “playing street” where people/kids can play ball, tag or whatever. Cars can only go 7 km/h / 4.3 mph max. I would say it's the only street I would feel comfortable to say in the middle. 😁😁

@kardondo 11 ай бұрын

That’s Dwayne the rock Johnson. He has bulletproof coating on his bald skull, side effects could be extreme stupidity and lack of basic human common sense.

@ulalaFrugilega 11 ай бұрын

It's what I constantly had to tell my dog in his first phase of: "I'd like to go in a different direction, why don't we?" I don't mind discussing routes, but NOT in the middle of the street!

@Aaron-nm1ob 11 ай бұрын

This guy is excellent. He finds the things that are off but gives credit to the things done well.

@gamecokben 11 ай бұрын

Wow, maybe that's why they hired him for the job

@avalon4445 11 ай бұрын

@@gamecokben professional

@Aaron-nm1ob 11 ай бұрын

@@gamecokben don't be a troll.

@deadpuul8221 10 ай бұрын

Gave a super hero movie higher realism rating than fast/furious movie, that's a win

@splashafrica 10 ай бұрын

You can tell he has a bit more rank from what you see with the average crayon eating grunt

@jw9737 11 ай бұрын

Big props for recognizing The Raid Redemption. Excellent movie.

@mechanomics2649 9 ай бұрын

People never shut up about those movies, what do you mean?

@archmage7813 8 ай бұрын

Excellent fight scenes in a terrible movie

@user-nw1je1ur6t 8 ай бұрын

Great movie

@MichaelWutsch 8 ай бұрын

@@mechanomics2649I mean, it is one of the best action fighting movies ever

@all3ykat79 11 ай бұрын

I'm glad he said a little about how the population was misrepresented in Black Hawk Down. I had a friend who lived in that area, he said it was a wealthy neighbourhood... didn't look like that at all.

@FlyingTigersKMT 11 ай бұрын

It’s all relative

@FullThrottleProductions 11 ай бұрын

I think Black Hawk Down was shot in Morocco

@FlyingTigersKMT 11 ай бұрын

@@FullThrottleProductions it was

@FullThrottleProductions 11 ай бұрын

@@FlyingTigersKMT 👍

@kolinmartz 11 ай бұрын

I’m sure he didn’t live in Bakaara market tho. The wealthy area’s definitely was on the UN controlled sector of the city that they evacuated towards at the end of the movie.

@boomer19450 10 ай бұрын

The Raid actually got a scene where the enemy snipers DELIBERATELY shot a crippling attack to the police outside the building so that their scream can draw their allies into their line of sight.

@luuuuk18 11 ай бұрын

this guy was awsome! he kept my attention all the way trough

@jochencwilhelm 11 ай бұрын

he also has a Podcast, Urban Warfare Project, highly recommended for everybody interested in the topic

@swiminpeak 11 ай бұрын

Try serving in his platoon... (it was awesome)

@TaurusWitch29 6 ай бұрын

He's nice to look at too, but I realize that that's kind of rude to say at the same time. Apparently I have a type. My ex is in the army and the one before him was a cop. Says enough about me. Now I'm single on purpose because I don't need to be saved 😂 I literally got rid of all the socials and have stayed alone on purpose for over a year and won't even attempt it, no conversation or anything because just no. I'm done. I've never been alone and it's amazing. 10/10 would recommend. But dude is nice. Lol.

@HouseOfAndrew 8 ай бұрын

Mosul is a personal favorite movie. Excellently shot and a very compelling story. Also nice to have main characters that weren't from the US or Europe

@HrZD16 11 ай бұрын

I'd honestly want to see one of these venerable operators react to the urban shootout towards the end of 2006's "Children of Men", such a realistic portrayal of city combat imo. Plus I'm a sucker for how the troops were kitted out in the film.

@Fox-One1937 11 ай бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="169">2:49</a> this urban battle was set in sidi moussa sale morocco. The men who play somalian insurgent were for the most students from african contries and some other illigal immigrent who life in rabat-sale, they enjoy the experience. The location where the movie was set still today remembrement by the nickname of mogadicio.😅

@M1MyRifle 11 ай бұрын

I think the Battle of Carentan from Band of Brothers should've made the list, it was very well done.

@gurugulab1414 11 ай бұрын

It wasn't urban warfare...

@M1MyRifle 11 ай бұрын

@@gurugulab1414 yes it was....

@dakaodo 11 ай бұрын

@@M1MyRifle he may be using a different definition of urban, houses, buildings, walls, roofs, or planet Consensus Reality. :P

@PrimoX379 10 ай бұрын

@@gurugulab1414?? 😆

@squeaky206 2 ай бұрын

I think the Market Garden scene should've also made the list. Though..one would probably enough.

@raccoonking7566 10 ай бұрын

Loved to use mouse holing in XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Yeah, they're aliens, but pinning an enemy squad in an alley with one team, while a second team blast a hole from the side and eliminates their cover, was really effective and fun. Same goes for sniper and overwatch. Finding a good spot so they can cover the advance is almost mandatory. Once you get jet packs, the sniper becomes the grim reaper for exposed enemies.

@mechanomics2649 9 ай бұрын

I just stopped using explosives in XCOM. Was tired of getting bitched at for it lol. It never felt like I could comfortably use them because an enemy could always be right around the corner and could get pasted. I always used a sniper with in the zone, squad sight, executioner, and damn good ground. Set them up on overwatch and run two assaults into a room to stir up the aliens.

@gruntopolouski5919 9 ай бұрын

The only XCOM I ever played was the original, back in the late eights, early 90s. Loved it, never manage to actually win, LOL!!!

@justinshirley8373 11 ай бұрын

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1195">19:55</a> I watched the interview with Delta Force Operator Kyle Morgan talking about the mule kick and he said that’s the “master key”. He used that kick to clear the hotel rooms and it worked 100%

@MichaelHartley-ff7np 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant interview on the shawn ryan show @ShawnRyanShowOfficial

@apolloniakageaki1711 10 ай бұрын

Did he talk about other doors too? It'd be interesting to know if he was specifically talking about hotel doors or if he meant others too. Of course, hotel doors don't *have* to be easier to kick open but I'd imagine doors to the outside could generally have a stronger locking mechanism in place ... or whatever that is called xD

@LightemupWMH 10 ай бұрын

I always use and teach the mule kick. Generates power, and moves you out of the way of the door so your team can enter quickly. If you're facing the door when you kick, either you need to be first in which means you have to set your footing get your gun on target and then move, or you have to move out of the way to let your team in. Mule kick, step and turn and you're on pace to be the 3rd man into the room.

@mikeyforrester6887 9 ай бұрын

@@LightemupWMH Mulekick, nothing happens, everyone inside knows you're there, get shot in the head.

@jkent9915 11 ай бұрын

What they are doing with drones in Ukraine is insane. A $500 drone, a $200 bomb, a $14 release mechanism, and splat goes your $5M tank.

@nadyyy_sofeaaaa 11 ай бұрын

In my opinion, the Raid 1 & 2 are the greatest martial art action movies of all times 💯

@jw9737 11 ай бұрын

Definitely in my top 5 of all time.

@henzoko5946 8 ай бұрын

100% greatest of all time. Literally cant think of a close second thats like it

@Belgand 11 ай бұрын

A shame that this didn't include Full Metal Jacket. Especially when he comments at the end on a sniper using casualties to draw people out. It also shows the coordination between armor and infantry during urban combat. Overall there's a bit too much focus on the past two decades and Iraq/Afghanistan.

@ulalaFrugilega 11 ай бұрын

Right! The classics need to be valued more. Would love to see FMJ in a really big cinema, too.

@Bornst3ll3r 11 ай бұрын

Fully agree, I would also like to see him comment on older urban warfare tactics

@HoneyKrisp69 11 ай бұрын

Well his 25 years of experience is in Iraq so...

@squeaky206 2 ай бұрын

@@HoneyKrisp69Vietnam and Iraq were about the same.

@marianat2830 11 ай бұрын

Black Hawk Down is one of my favorite military movies! It’s so stressful

@jenx5870 9 ай бұрын

Same here. They consulted with the Rangers and the pilot who were actually there, and some of them were actually on the set during filming. In fact, one is actually performing his rescue just as he did on that day, in the film. It's as accurate as it can be. They had an issue with how the Somalis looked, because they were played by Morrocans, and because it appeared to be less coordinated on their side. However, they did portray Aidid as having foot soldiers who set up and planned the downing of the Blackhawks, and it showed their coordinated efforts when the second team went in at night and surprise attacked them. They weren't going to show everything, when the movie was about how the soldiers got out of the city while being attacked by hundreds of armed civilians. They were all trained at the respective military bases, so it is as real as it gets. I think they did a good job.

@RedDuke42 11 ай бұрын

Please more of this guy 🙏 eloquent, fair, informative

@contemporaryhumours 6 ай бұрын

These all are great. Nothing to add just giving points to whom ever do deserve. John Spencer does excellent job here and Insider does the editing and all so big thumbs up!

@KoongYe 11 ай бұрын

You know he's an expert because he doesn't blink.

@hann2fam217 11 ай бұрын

Love these! So informative👏. This guy is really interesting, bring him back.

@RodZilla11 7 ай бұрын

The ROCK standing in the middle of an ambush letting off rounds is hilarious! 😂😂😂😂😂 You would think the Producers of the film would hire actual SF guys as consultants on war films to emote some semblance of reality in their movies! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

@mentalmadness2192 11 ай бұрын

"The Raid" getting serious love!🥰👍

@kolinmartz 11 ай бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="850">14:10</a>I mean every fifth round is a tracer and fury definitely got close to that. Also those are mostly wooden or old type masonry. So an HE round that was prevalent in the load outs of WW2 tanks definitely would be doing more damage to those compared to shaped charge and the penetrator darts most modern tanks roll around with.

@shaneussery7086 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for being the one to point that out on here

@WTP_DAVE 11 ай бұрын

Subtle drop of Pavlov's house one of the most iconic places in all of urban warfare.

@user-cd4bx6uq1y 10 ай бұрын

Amazing videos. These really give the raw thinking process that people like about the internet

@hkpro99 11 ай бұрын

Great Video ! Big fan of Spencer and his urban warfare podcast

@fredbyoutubing 11 ай бұрын

Some suggested if there is a follow up: Generation kills, Hurt Locker, Sicario, Band of brothers (Sainte Mère Église and river crossing parts especially)

@LordofDD24 11 ай бұрын

I love that he gave such high marks to the Raid!

@bigbrowntau 11 ай бұрын

Mule kick was being taught as the way to enter for a number of years, so your body was behind the wall as you kicked. The way it's shown in the last movie was wrong, but in the h eat of battle, mistakes happen...even more when Hollywood gets involved hehehe

@edi9892 11 ай бұрын

It really depends on the door. I kicked in a steel door, but know wooden doors that would survive the police battering ramms... Most doors are just a legal note, but some are really built to take hits.

@maxlutz3674 11 ай бұрын

In most movies I have watched the mule kick is shown with the soldier standing in front of the door and kicking backwards. The version that keeps the body in cover makes more sense to me. I am not a soldier or veteran. I served in an ERT and learned my breaching with jaws of life, a Haligan or an axe. On the other side of the door nobody was shooting at us.

@shanetuma3845 10 ай бұрын

@@maxlutz3674if someone is on the other side, you want to see them, so you can shoot them. If you can't see then, but they see you kicking in the door, they can shoot you through the wall, or lay down fire through the doorway. Kill them before they kill you, pretty simple really.

@SavageShooter93 8 ай бұрын

They should have shown more of the clip from Enemy at the Gates because he did "know" where the guy was, he did just get super lucky that in that blown out building he had a god ray of light coming down RIGHT where he needed it to reflect off his mirror at that vent. And sometimes Cat and mouse sniper fights do happen Carlos Hathcock did go sniper hunting and they certainly were looking for him.

@spongebork 11 ай бұрын

"We call that "cover"". God damn, one never stops learning...

@silentfox8 11 ай бұрын

Whats most important to learn is the difference between cover and concealment

@Tango_Mike 11 ай бұрын

I wish he could react to Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite) which takes place in late 90s Rio favelas and is base on a book by a real life squad leader. The Battalion of Special Operations (BOPE) is known for being one of the most experienced, well-trained yet deadliest police unit in the world and the movie does a fantastic job portraying it.

@PavelKahun 11 ай бұрын

I spoke with some Brazilian girls that emigrated to Austria and they told me that the movie is extremely accurate when it comes to the corruption, violence, etc.

@CushionSapp 11 ай бұрын

Nothing really to say, but I enjoyed this video. Thanks for making and sharing it.

@kutter_ttl6786 11 ай бұрын

You guys need to bring John back and have him assess the accuracy of Steven Seagal's films.

@dakaodo 11 ай бұрын

They better supply him with a lot of popcorn (and preferably his choice of strong drink), as compensation for inflicting that kind of punishment on a career soldier/analyst. :D

@AvoidTheCadaver 11 ай бұрын

leave that to the wonder that is SpaceIce

@sskptjwatt 7 ай бұрын

Extraction was pretty realistic. The kid is a kid and he does not know what to do when he's running away from an enemy. Besides, Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) is an SAS trained soldier. He is trained diffirently from you.

@joels5150 10 ай бұрын

The trick with urban warfare is; do you stand in the middle of the street exposed to gunfire, or do you huddle up next to walls and risk getting taken out by explosives? To give credit to Fury, earlier on in the film, they specify the tracer round is one out of a specific number, I think it was 25 or so. The scene where the Germans are shooting ‘light sabers’ was probably just for the convenience of the audience.

@lastremnantdeliverancemini4929 9 ай бұрын

I believe from my time doing MOUT every five rounds was a tracer round in the M240B, maybe it differs from different weapon systems.

@henzoko5946 8 ай бұрын

Raid 1 & 2 are just on another level of action no other movie comes close to

@kolinmartz 11 ай бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="332">5:32</a> the pioneer tools on the Strykers are amazing for this reason. We can at least send a runner to fetch an axe from the Vics since they were a few hundred nesters from us hitting the objective. Or have someone grab it when we get dropped off at the VDO if we know we might need them. I remember one time we were doing EA Dev and one of our sister platoons were all struggling using their E tools while our dudes grabbed the pick and the shovel to help them out from the vics. This is why I’m a huge proponent for very single US Army ground vehicle at least having an axe, a shovel, a sledge hammer and a pick as part of their basic load out for any patrol. Maybe add a pry bar and a halligan in that if you can.

@AAllen-br8it 10 ай бұрын

Came for The Raid. Was not disappointed.

@ZoniacMan 11 ай бұрын

Should have done the highway scene in Sicario.

@ApolloXL5 11 ай бұрын

And I was hoping for some example from the Strike Back series. Still, great commentary and analysis from what was chosen.

@Knutterbife 11 ай бұрын

In Iraq, we had a Scout in my unit that carried an Axe and when someone further up the CoC found out, they threatened him with an Article 15 if he didnt get rid of it lol. They didnt want us intimidating the locals or some other reason

@RodrigoRodriguezowl 11 ай бұрын

A yes the axe is intimidatiob, not all the assault rifles, Granada launches and 50 cals lmao

@Knutterbife 11 ай бұрын

@@RodrigoRodriguezowl Yeah, you see the silliness. But it seemed to have that effect anyway lol

@Italkmadshitlol 11 ай бұрын

@RodrigoRodriguezowl the locals were batshit terrified of anyone with a Beretta more than anything

@ShanesAutos 11 ай бұрын

Should have also included the sniper scene from the tv series Bodyguard where the two people are pinned down in a BMW. Very good scene I thought.

@dakaodo 11 ай бұрын

I need to make an effort to find and watch Bodyguard. I've seen a clip of that scene, which had great tension.

@ShanesAutos 11 ай бұрын

@@dakaodo it’s on Netflix

@HyphyJuice916 2 ай бұрын

Surprised he didn't talk about the suppressors and how ridiculously quiet the movies portray them to be

@jkent9915 11 ай бұрын

A friend of mine was like a Marine Combat Engineer. He said most of his job was either clearing or creating obstacles. Got a wall in the way: blast it. Need an extra wall: blast it.

@user-qj7ke6cv2k 11 ай бұрын

Love this content!!

@arnauddpl7944 11 ай бұрын

Hello, glad to see I'm one of the first :) from belgium and love all your content :) What I do love in this video is that Mr Spencer also speaks about the interaction between the army and the local/civil and I think it is something people don't speak enough about. So if you want a suggestion, try to give more room about the contact between both camp, so that people do realase that war is not just about gun and machine. I have spoken and wish you good luck

@tommyt1971 11 ай бұрын

There’s another great example of “mouse holing” in Che Pt 1 where a small group of Che’s guys bust their way thru several houses to reach a church where a sniper was perched. Che also talks about it in his Reminiscences on the Cuban Revolution.

@mnm8818 10 ай бұрын

rant add: way back in afghan war, saw liveleaks vids on usa trrops under fire, so they rushed into a building and debated, then blew a hole to a side street. the sgt asked his men to cross. though none wanted to. so they deployed white smoke for the first few guys to cross...

@ianray8823 11 ай бұрын

I feel like Mosul is underrated, it has reasonable tactics and an enthralling story and it takes place over the span of an afternoon. I feel like it's quite realistic but don't be a sucker and put an English dub, war situations in native tongue can really sell the scene

@wallingfordd 9 ай бұрын

Glad he clarified what cover is

@captaincampalot 11 ай бұрын

Can’t help but notice he said “most” things can’t see through steel…

@abelchavez2463 11 ай бұрын

Should also add some clips from Ché. Awesome video

@dallenhaven3329 9 ай бұрын

Great video so nice to learn things and think about these things. I would have liked to know the score for Hurt Locker

@Octavianus08 8 ай бұрын

Great analysis! I was hoping to see the final battle from The Kingdom since i had some issues with the FBI hiding behind cars when they very shooting with assault rifles at each other.

@BluesBlueable 10 ай бұрын

Nice video. Should have had him take a look at the extration scene from HEAT (1995)

@davewilliams5721 11 ай бұрын

Those "lazers" he was referring to in Fury were tracers every 3, or 5 rounds I forget. It was explained to Norman when he is first put in the tank.

@Solar-td4fj 9 ай бұрын

His point is that in real life tracer rounds are not set that close to each other to the point that they are so frequent it looks like you are shooting lasers.

@davewilliams5721 9 ай бұрын

@Solar-td4fj usually every 3-8 rounds there is a tracer round that I've come across. So it's really not that uncommon, I've also come across quarter tracers, which is one every 5th round. If you're firing a weapon that's pumping out 850 rounds per minute, it definitely can look like that.

@mattbrown5921 11 ай бұрын

If he liked the saving private ryan scene, someone should tell him to watch full metal jacket sniper scene.

@cgi2002 11 ай бұрын

There was a recent forgotten weapons video on that scene that showed its main flaw and its simply that the US snipers weapon is all wrong (specifically the optics he has, one of which wasn't issued to the army at all).

@mattbrown5921 11 ай бұрын

@cgi2002 i was referring to the scene where the kid sniper takes out multiple soldiers by waiting for them to help the injured soldier.

@kickstand801 11 ай бұрын

Idk but this was a lot of fun to watch!

@TypeShotta 11 ай бұрын

*Keep these up! This is why I'm subbed!*

@gamecokben 11 ай бұрын

Great, we were all wondering why you were

@TypeShotta 11 ай бұрын

@gamecokben Glad I can relive some of the wonder.. also the comment wasn't for you.. as you don't work for the channel or probably at all.. they ask to tell them what content you like the most.. so they keep putting out content worth while.. 🤡

@QuixoticCowboy 11 ай бұрын

Is there a chance that we will get an 'expert reacts to horse stunts' episode?

@joshradelaide943 3 ай бұрын

"Stay off the walls" is fuckin wild... Walls with bullets just zipping across them ☠️

@Comando729 11 ай бұрын

I’d like to see him review the final gun fight scene in Heat

@etherscholar 10 ай бұрын

Mosul was such a fantastic movie

@Equator.Explorer 11 ай бұрын

Also wish he'd review a few scenes of band of brothers & the 1988 movie Zero Option

@tomatowarfare849 10 ай бұрын

Another great vid. Just ya know, he says M2 Fifty-cal, aka Browning M 2 Fifty Caliber machinegun. It is not M250 as named the chapter in the vid : ) (also then you show example vid of a soldier shooting FN MAG, not M2, but I just being an arse :) )

@ThunderTaco206 8 ай бұрын

Crossing the street is a nightmare. Also, I hate traffic circles. EFPs, Baghdad, the surge. IFYKYK.

@Neo2266. Ай бұрын

I wish he could review the entirety of Extraction and Extraction 2

@daviddubinsky1281 11 ай бұрын

i am impressed the guy knows Dom of Pavlov House World War 2; this guy is for real!

@Businessflip 11 ай бұрын

He's right about the holes in the wall's growing up in Somalia i use to see a whole block of Street buildings with holes in the walls

@poni6871 10 ай бұрын

I wish he had mentioned something from the old german movie "stalingrad" which has alot of urban fighting scenes in it

@pauladamson2715 3 ай бұрын

Man how did we not discuss Clear and Present Danger!?

@Nutz450 6 ай бұрын

I would’ve loved to see him go over the shootout scene in Heat

@codystout5353 11 ай бұрын

I remember in Iraq a boot put a 240 barrel on a wooden window seal. The weapon bounced all over the place. He definitely took care of the target.

@OldManJ3nkins 7 ай бұрын

I wish these were longer, I can tell they cut stuff they should at least put the uncut version somewhere.

@kristiandannevang5244 11 ай бұрын

The Stalingrad fight, he says didn't happen, true. But! The Russian female Sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko aka Lady Death killed several enemy snipers in cat and mouse battles.

@thebalderthor4884 8 ай бұрын

The Raid Redemption is possibly one of best action films ever made.

@firefox0884 11 ай бұрын

Facing the door to kick it is the best way to screw up your leg though. The mule kick is a lot less force but a lot less risk of injury for the kicker

@alexandrefu8689 10 күн бұрын

I'm sure others have asked this question but I would like to know how you guys can invite such people on the show.

@HKspurs10 Ай бұрын

They should have specialised armour for urban warfare in which they sacrifice speed and mobility for extreme protection, have armour and reactive armor so thick that it needs 2 or 3 hits to even make a dent

@anthonygonzalez514 11 ай бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1370">22:50</a> Full Metal Jacket did just as well with that.

@Jon-yo3kg 11 ай бұрын

The interesting thing in the battle in Fast Five is that they actually downplayed the kind of shootouts that happen in the rio favelas. Criminals in rio are some of the most heavily armed on the planet, packing RPGs, fifty cals and assault rifles. The issues is that most of these weapons are placed in the hands of drug-addled teenagers, and the drug lords even use under-ten kids as spotters, setting off fireworks to alert the rest of the troop where cops and enemies are coming from. The fighting is pure chaos, and most of the people who end up dying are literal children. The Tropa de Elite films are probably good ones for this guy to review.

@deildegast 7 ай бұрын

And now I would like the instructors opinion on the Crapfest that is fury, one tank crew decimating an SS battalion.

@andrewrussell5653 11 ай бұрын

I wish they would keep the move name listed somewhere while they are talking.

@heni63 11 ай бұрын

Yes me too

@WallStreet06 10 ай бұрын

Pops is retired 18b. Heard cover vs. concealment in water gun fights when I was 5. I’m like pops plywood keeps me dry. He couldn’t turn it off.

@sarthakjaiswal5864 11 ай бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="910">15:10</a> I have seen some high calibre machine gun fire they glow like that because of heat.

@maduwasinera878 11 ай бұрын

Mosul one really got him

@bin4ry_d3struct0r 11 ай бұрын

I'm surprised to learn that modern sniper rifles are typically suppressed or silenced. I always read that anything that touches the rifle barrel interferes with the accuracy.

@erikd2628 11 ай бұрын

Mounting a suppressor to the barrel may affect where shots land but you just adjust that in your sight's zero because while the gun may now shoot a little different the suppressor stays on the gun and isn't changing shot to shot. Touching the barrel is not really the core issue, the issue is that you zero the gun under one set of conditions and anything that changes those conditions (such as putting pressure on the barrel where there wasn't during zeroing) will have an affect on the point of impact.

@silentfox8 11 ай бұрын

The can never touchrs the rifling of the barrel, what affects your accuracy the most is the fact that the bullet will have more time in an enclosed space where its being accelerated by burning gasses, giving the projectile a faster rate of speed which WILL affect accuracy but not usually in a negative way, you just have to account for added fps, but another way to mitigate that issue is to have 2 rifles