one of my absolute favorites!

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If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

The main plot line is the military operation involving the two protagonists. But at the same time, there are a lot of subplots told in flashback, which are about the family and life issues of the two protagonists before they join the army. I have to say these subplots are too long, really disturb the movie and interrupt the pace. Not only that, the action scenes are also quite stupid. The two protagonists do not even know the basic military rules. Instead of finding a cover, they just stand against the sniper and get shot.

Dag The Mountain 2012, shows the harshness of Southern Turkey (Mountains) and Northern Iraq (Mountains) during the near Arctic Winters, that also happen at the 2/3rds Mountains of Afghanistan The Pamir (Roof of the World) and the Hindu Kush (Killer of Hindus).Like the Movie "The Breath" (Nefes: Vatan Sagolsun) 2009 also a Turkish Movie, Dag depicts the extreme Patriotism within the Turkish Military, regardless of the Out Dated Deadly Conventional Warfare idea of Bases to hold Terrain during Special Warfare as Insurgency Warfare as used by the Majority (Millions) of Kurdistanis of the PKK, HPG, KGK, and Kurdistanis as Allies of Osama Bin Laden, Al Quada, Millions of Afghan Taliban, Muslim Terrorist Organizations as Ansar Al Islam.Yes, the Turkish Military is as depicted, as we had refresher training with the German (Bundeswehr) Commandos at the German Alps as Mountain Warfare (including Technical Mountain Climbing) followed by more Mountain Warfare Refresher Training with the Turkish Special Forces at Southern Turkey, our "Training" was actually hunting Kurdistanis of the PKK, HPG, KGK, Ansar Al Islam at Southern Turkey under conditions identical to Afghanistan's 2/3rds Mountains before being deployed again to Afghanistan. Previously, we had graduated from the U.S. Army's Mountain Warfare School, and Arctic/Winter Warfare School.The Effective Devastating Effects of a Sniper using a U.S.S.R. (Russian Federation) SVD 7.62mm x 54mm Sniper Rifle are very accurately depicted in Dag, average range 1600 meters, compared to most U.S. and U.S. Allies 5.56mm x 45mm NATO Standard as 600 Maximum Effective Range (Average Range M16 350 meters, M4 250 meters), as basically the Sniper can shoot at you all Day , while your return fires land Hundreds of Meters too short. Most of the weapons shown in Dag (The Mountain) 2012 are the Turkish Military Version of the previous NATO Standard 7.62mm x 51mm Belgium FAL (Fusil Automatique Leger) Rifle, effective range 600 meters, still 600 meters short of shooting the Sniper equipped with a SVD Sniper Rifle. This is why upon our return to Afghanistan we used the M21 (range 1200 meters) as our Standard Rifle instead of the short range M16 or even shorter range M4, and later on we used the Modern Version of the M21 as the M25 (range 1200 meters), as previously during the previous deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq we carried Enemy Weapons Ak-47 range 800 meters, SVD range 1600 meters, RPG-7 range 800 meters.

Attracted by the high rating (7.6 at the time being) I watched this film which was probably mostly intended for Turkisch audiences. That was what made interesting for me: it gives some insight in the mentality of nowadays Turkey and it's attitude towards it's army. That attitude is very dualistic: on one side both protagonists are not happily becoming / being soldiers and life as a soldier on a mountaintop is not really glamorized, on the other side there is still the heroic dying ("where one will die a thousand will rise") and the father figure type commanders. On one side it is a modern, America type film on the other side quite dramatic and melancholic, which is maybe very Turkish.The visuals of the mountain landscape are beautiful, the characters are interesting, there is humor. The downside is that the military action is either quite unrealistic or Turkish soldiers are criminally lousy trained: going into a building in enemy territory WITHOUT taking your gun with you? You are almost out of ammunition and you do NOT take the AK 47 of the enemy you just killed? Take a rest in the snow and not on the nearby rocks where you are not such an easy target? I have never been a soldier but have seen enough war movies to know that these are not clever actions. The two protagonists pay dearly for these mistakes so the director was at least aware of that.

Film in the fact that it contains so many posts. The beginning of the chain of command for the two soldiers remain, to ask for help, but help prevent ... cooked kitten martyrs .. etc etc etc ... yes the movie was a bit simple, but as one of the military service and was engaged as one of the east, I can say, and managed to become the film's visual beauty of the film they want to tell. I cherish the memories of watching a movie, and if it came to the film ... Monitoring that do not understand anything, because the military dialogs. Turkey has many years of terror. Thousands of soldiers were killed in this battle. Mother cried all the time. This film tells the little terror in the country. Have a good time ...