shakercoola A small Turkish army squad are left to guard a field antenna on a border mountain. It suddenly falls to an ambush from ISIS. It's a heroic story of two soldiers trapped in the ambush, fighting for their lives. There's an interesting and humorous interplay between an educated, wealthy young man, the other a coarse street smart ruffian. In a series of backstory flashbacks we learn more about their lives and their digs. The protagonist is very reminiscent of the young 'Taylor' from the Oscar winning epic, Platoon. They put aside their differences and learn to trust each other to try and survive an unforgiving situation. The landscape is beautiful and tension is moderate as we await their pickup.

xacebop-09424 Out of nowhere I came across dozens of films I had never heard of before with ridiculously high imdb scores and the votes to back them up. This film "Dag" (2012) is among them. Do you ever see a movie's score beforehand and then go watch the movie with a bias towards thinking it will be good because so many others thought so? It might be shameful but I think we all have done it regardless of how small of an expectation it influences. With this film in particular I was extremely optimistic and in a hurry to watch it because the sequel - The Mountain (part 2) was rated significantly better.I was disappointed entirely. There were some areas of the film that were much better than the final overall score but those were few and far between.The first thing I noticed was that this film was shot with modern equipment and looked like something that might come out of Hollywood as opposed to a lot of times foreign films are a generation or two back and their film quality looks comparatively worse than what is the current standard by about a decade. I was surprised by this, off to a good start.Right off the bat it hits you, this film is trying to speak to YOU, the audience. Ingrained within its dialogue is nothing short of propaganda. The overly dramatic death scenes; The main character, despite having significant financial resources and a woman he loves is just like NOPE, I am going to make my family proud and prove them wrong and go join the obligatory military duty - so they break up. This might be believable but the manner in which they did it exhibited no logic beyond the character trying to "prove" something to his family (why?). Ok not a big deal, I can give them that. The next part really pissed me off. One of the more experienced officers is running along a ridge where there is one sniper shooting at the squad (not a very good one) and instead of evacuating along with the other men he stops dead in his tracks and walks toward the sniper and shouts out some obligatory nationalistic phrase before he is shot and killed in an overly dramatic fashion. This course of events would be required to set up the plot for the rest of the film, however the manner in which it was executed was overtly tangible and really changed whatever predisposed expectations I had from the imdb reviews. So far, we're about 10 minutes in.The story continues in the same manner with scenes being executed seemingly just to set up the plot of the film: two men are stranded and must hold out against terrorists (maybe?) who are in control of a strategic radio tower on top of a mountain. Upon reaching their destination they find the tower seemingly abandoned until... surprise! an enemy combatant is inside (watching tv). An overly dramatic scene plays out in which the main character is pinned down and the enemy soldier is slowly trying to press his knife into the hero's heart. As he does this, he whispers: "Shhhhh....". Well now that looks familiar... In fact, it is an exact ripoff of the film Saving Private Ryan, albeit with no emotional response whatsoever from the audience. Truth be told, it was embarrassing to watch. At this point in the film there was no going back. The film was irredeemable in my eyes. Looking back on it, the film consists mostly of stolen content executed in a way that would be disrespectful to the original material.After this experience my eyes really opened up to what was going on. Turkish people are swarming onto this site in massive numbers and rating all of their movies 10/10. This is evident by going into the details of the votes of these films and seeing the origin and numbers of the location of where the votes came from. Because of this terrible experience the 6 or so other Turkish films which I intended to watch afterwards have long-since been removed from my mind. I will probably never watch another Turkish film as long as I live and that is such a travesty because it is not fair that other films have to suffer because of its inhabitants inflated the votes in order to... honestly I am not sure why. There is nothing to gain from doing this other than to promote the message embedded within the film - an unnecessarily nationalistic message for the citizens and to recruit soldiers to fight against "terrorists". DO NOT WATCH.

TheBigSick 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.

dncorp 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.