In an amalgamation of poor character traits, Russia’s arrest and war with Uganda, and some Afghan war stories come the struggles of relief workers, which is directed by Martin Campbell. The film possesses American superiority ideology including valorizing the firepower of the Americans and Democrats. It is only Campbell that is profligate with time by building over-the-top Eastern and Western culture combat! Although many ideologues will like to watch Dirty Angels, I dissuade these people since the film ratings are terribly low.
The film’s action begins during an Afghan hostage counter-terrorist operation. Jake a commanding officer embarks on a mission to commandeer control of the operation. The last build-up up including sitting in a police van and arresting the Russians was gripping to say the least. It is then that they play out the untouchable muscle Americans and unnecessarily kill the countrymen who are trying to be the guiding force of the scene—a group of soldiers. And so irrationally having empathetically assembled the coherence regarding the mission, they betray a shooting scene that lacks the basic fundamentals of character development.
The best thing about the film is Campbell’s eagerness to sit through unending hours in a chair for utter humiliation and bury himself for the sake of getting his point across. For in Dirty Angels he turned his camera on Afghan American forces and out of all the compelling stories he could tell, he chose ne again to glorify the fight against counter-terrorism. But once again the effort put into filming alongside America is commended for having embodied American ideals. And instead of the extensive levels of Eastern combat, we view the briefest sequences of Western combat taking place to counter the US forces.
Their monikers are based on the prominent roles they fill within the organization: Geek (Jojo T. Gibbs), who is the group’s technical wizard, The Bomb (Maria Bakalova) who specializes on explosives, and Shooter (Emily Bruni) who is, well, a shooter. Travis (Christopher Backus) is a long-time friend who enlists Jake for the job, Malik (Reza Brojerdi) and Abbas (Aziz Çapkurt) are the local brothers who also offer insanely reckless driving and other ridiculous bits.
With regard to the shooting style, the film is also all over the place, there are life-threatening and chase scenes, followed by shootouts, then macho men hurling insults at one another, not to forget the random pop culture references which are used to anchor these people. There is no narrative purpose served by Ruby Rose’s character as a medic called Medic, who has a fleeting romance with a doctor called Doctor Mike (Edmund Kingsley).
Set against the backdrop of the events taking place in the American state, Amir (George Iskander) viciously focuses on attaining a $10 million ransom from the government, specifically, the savage Taliban leader who orchestrated the kidnapping in hopes of cashing in. He isn’t intimidating enough yet, so there isn’t much to do. He can’t be captivating shockingly; every cross or displeasing act results in an abrupt but violent murder. It’s terribly cliché, but that’s his character.
Although the whereabouts suggest otherwise, human suffering is fairly central to the plot, torture porn as you may call it, there are quite a few, ranged from gun battles having all MW-level moments to exploding Humvees.
If gory violence is what you want to see, Dirty Angels has got you covered. Of course, all of that is preceded by how the film turns out to be and if I had to sum it up in one statement I’d say that Dirty Angels is downright boring.
It really is a shame because when putting together this film, the team could’ve made huge strides by focusing on the narrative concerning the team of women burqa clad strong individuals going undercover in order to rescue other women. But unfortunately, such hopes are dashed within the first few minutes of the opening which inundates the viewer with senseless violence. It Is then hard to focus on the emotional aspect of the movie as it is drowned out by the prayers of an extremist group and the constant high-pitched screeching from an explosion or a machine gun. The characters are given the same kind of cheap toughness as mercenaries from hack 90’s action flicks. So what if a bunch of rebellious girls in headscarves and burqas heroically fight male patriarchs to save teenagers coerced into forced marriage – when bullets and bombs are flying, it’s hard to feel that drama.
Considering how there is such discontent surrounding women empowerment in the US even in the current day and age, Dirty Angels was a deep fluke of a film to watch.
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