Jarhead 2: Field of Fire

Video
2014
R
1h 43m

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

6.8K

YOUR RATING

Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a Navy SEAL flags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation of international importance: they must help an Afghan woman famous for her defiance of the Taliban escape the country. Without tanks or air support, Merrimette and his team will need all the courage and firepower they can muster to fight their way across the war-torn country and shepherd the woman to safety.

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Without tanks or air support, a corporal and his team must muster all the courage and firepower they can to fight their way across war-torn Afghanistan and shepherd an important anti-Taliban... Read allWithout tanks or air support, a corporal and his team must muster all the courage and firepower they can to fight their way across war-torn Afghanistan and shepherd an important anti-Taliban woman to safety.Without tanks or air support, a corporal and his team must muster all the courage and firepower they can to fight their way across war-torn Afghanistan and shepherd an important anti-Taliban woman to safety.

Director
- Don Michael Paul
Writers
- Berkeley Anderson
- Ellis Black
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

6.8K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Don Michael Paul
Writers
- Berkeley Anderson
- Ellis Black
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
A wilhelm scream is heard at 1:32 as a lone man falls down.

Goofs
When the marine fires a 40 mm grenade from his rifle directly on a nearby Taliban fighter at the village, it is not supposed to explode since the fuse becomes activated only after 40 yards as to protect crews from accidental firings.

Quotes
Chris Merrimette: A Story.
Chris Merrimette: A man has a lot of choices,
Chris Merrimette: and these choices made in life are rarely perfect.
Chris Merrimette: So he decides to sign a contract,
Chris Merrimette: because he want's to make a difference.
Chris Merrimette: He wants to save this world, make it a better place.
Chris Merrimette: The consequences are punishing,
Chris Merrimette: unforgiving,
Chris Merrimette: and he questions why he ever signed that contract.
Chris Merrimette: So what's the fucking point?
Chris Merrimette: I guess the point is responsibility of duty.
Chris Merrimette: Love of country.
Chris Merrimette: A way of life.
Chris Merrimette: Are we on the right side of this?
Chris Merrimette: These aren't our questions to ask.
Chris Merrimette: A Marine fights for the person standing next to him.
Chris Merrimette: He fights for the man who can't stand anymore.
Chris Merrimette: He fights so that others can have the opportunity to make a difference.
Chris Merrimette: That's how we make the unforgiving forgivable.
Chris Merrimette: And if we're lucky, somewhere in all the fighting and dying, we discover hope.
Chris Merrimette: And the Marines who killed and bled and died will always be jarheads.
Chris Merrimette: Their families will have to live with the unbearable demands of their ultimate sacrifice.
Chris Merrimette: And the ones who make it home, we never really leave our brothers behind.
Chris Merrimette: We always remember.
Chris Merrimette: We're professional fighting men. We are jarheads.

Alternate versions
Exists in an R rated and Unrated Version. The Unrated Version contains trivial male nudity in a shower scene and additional bullet wounds for a fallen Taliban fighter. There is no difference in running time.

Connections
Followed by Jarhead 3: The Siege (2016)

Soundtracks
Hit em with a boom
by King Juju

User reviews53

Review

Featured review

5/10

Mildly Entertaining Nonsense

If Jarhead was a subtle, slow-burning study of the Middle Eastern occupation through the eyes of a grunt, Jarhead 2 is the complete opposite.

It's an entertaining if dumb action flick but has very little in common with reality or common sense.

Ambushed on a supply run, a team of marines switches their mission object to keep an Afghan woman out of the hands of Taliban with the help of Cole Hauser's NAVY Seal.

The acting is fine and the action is well shot, if totally preposterous with overkill.

I can't claim to have served in conflict, but I'm pretty certain soldiers on both sides wouldn't frequently waste RPG's just to blow up one person armed only with a gun, instead of disabling vehicles and such, for which these weapons are designed. A lot of the action pieces seemed designed for cinema gore effects only and pretty much took me out of the reality that the rest of the film worked hard to achieve.

As did a point after a gun fight where the soldiers opt to walk to their destination through hostile territory, instead of commandeering the Taliban cars.

It wasn't the worse movie, and for the most part was exciting enough to hold my attention, but it could have been a lot better had it not been for nonsensical movie tropes that burst the bubble.