Cinema has been having a harder time assimilating the most recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because they were so different than any of the wars proceeding. Most of the previous wars were combat-combat-combat (World War I, II) or search the jungle for the enemy (Vietnam), both of which lend themselves to cinematic storytelling. Iraq and Afghanistan were a lot of patrolling, patrolling, patrolling then BOOM, everything goes wrong in an instant. It’s as traumatic as anything experienced in previous wars, but if you’re making a movie, how do you fill 90 minutes with that? “Kilo Two Bravo” does a very good job portraying that modern war reality while making it work as a movie, no small feat. A group of British soldiers patrolling in Afghanistan find themselves stranded in the middle of a mine field. “Kilo Two Bravo” gets it all done as a good war movie should, communicating the horror, insanity and randomness of war while immersing the audience in the battleground. Based on a true story.

Extras:

• This film was released outside North America with the title, “Kajaki.”
• If you’re a U.S. audience, you really have to turn on the sub-titles because the heavy British accent is way too hard to understand.