His foot on a mine, forced to stand and/or crouch there for days as he devolved into a kind of lucid dreaming state. The Wall was unavoidably reminiscent to me of another film I reviewed recently, the Armie Hammer war thriller Mine, which found that film's hero sharpshooter stranded in the middle of the desert with Is literally stuck between a rock and a hard place, and the rest of the film plays out with Ize strategizing how to get out of an untenable situation. Badly wounded himself and already certain that Matthews has met his maker, Ize Only thing in the area that can offer even the hint of protection.

Ize manages to haul himself behind the wall, the Goes by the nickname Ize, rushes out himself to help his partner, at which point he's hit, too.

When Matthews decides to throw caution to the siroccos (so to speak) and journey down to examine the site upĬlose and personal, perhaps none too surprisingly he's almost immediately taken out by a bullet coming from some unseen location. Guys are trying to figure out if there are still any Iraqi operatives hiding out at the scene, and after 22 hours of absolutely nothing happening, theyĭecide there isn't. Number of deceased individuals lay in place, testament to the aiming skill of an infamous Iraqi who is only known by the code name Juba. The two Army buddies are on an outcropping above the wall, where a 'spotter' for sharpshooter Staff Sergeant Shane Matthews (John Cena). The film's titular barrier turns out to be a refuge of sorts for Sergeant Allen Isaac (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), a Instead The Wallĭeals with a ramshackle ruin in the middle of the Iraqi desert, some vestige of a larger building that sits forlorn in the vast dusty expanse, In case you haven't been paying attention for the past year and a half, our body politic has been rife with discussions about construction of aīorder obstacle, so perhaps it should be stated at the outset that The Wall is not about that structure. Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, August 13, 2017

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