2009-12-31, 03:54 AM
[color="#cc8899"]Maybe it's because the line between military and commercial mercenaries is heavily blurred in the movie, and that the mercenary units working for a corporation are portrayed as a legitimate military. If they didn't try to blur that, and just left it at "these are guys working as a mercenary force and in it for the the guts, the gold, and the glory." The majority of the characters were well-made, but the main villain...was just hollow. He had absolutely no reason to be so set on utterly destroying the culture of the natives, and was way too eager to do battle. That's...eh.
The only driving force I could see for him is the scar they gave him, in a moby-plantain hunt the white whale type deal. Villains that are doing what they do http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForTheEvulz just irk me. The mob-like behavior of the soldiers following him is just as bad - I tend to have an inward flinch any time I see behavior like that, even though I know it's realistic.[/COLOR]
The only driving force I could see for him is the scar they gave him, in a moby-plantain hunt the white whale type deal. Villains that are doing what they do http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForTheEvulz just irk me. The mob-like behavior of the soldiers following him is just as bad - I tend to have an inward flinch any time I see behavior like that, even though I know it's realistic.[/COLOR]