9th Company - Great Movie About the Soviet-Afghan War

Saw this one during the weekend. If you don't already know about the real event that inspired this movie, take a look here.

9th Company is a great movie, but the narrative is a bit strange and leaves you wanting for more. In particular, I wished that the boot camp portions of the movie would have been a bit shorter, allowing more time for the patrols and combat in Afghanistan.

The amount of Soviet hardware shown in the movie is mind-blowing. Please take a look at the images below.

Favorite scene: an evening (or dawn?) exchange of taunts and shots between paratroopers in an outpost and Mujahideen in the surrounding hills.

Not so favorite scene: last stand scene felt a bit like taken from a Call of Duty game. Movies will be movies, I guess.

Besides explicit war violence, the movie has a sex scene. This scene has a message to it and it's not that explicit. But don't watch this movie with your kids. Or your mother in law.

Cheers,