Stop!
First thing, totally unrealistic.
He just fired a nuclear weapon from his shoulder.
I'm Mark "Billy" Billingham.
I spent 27 years in the military,
nine in the parachute regiment,
17 to...plus years with the SAS.
Since leaving the armed forces,
I then became head of security
for a number of A-lists,
including Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
And I'm currently now working in the TV industry
as an adviser on "SAS: Who Dares Wins."
The equipment and the Little Birds,
what the helicopters use, is probably quite right.
That's exactly how you ride into battle, like these do.
Flying down the streets the way that we see there
is probably a bit unrealistic,
bearing in mind it's a hostile environment.
Now, don't get me wrong,
these things can fly under washing lines,
they're unbelievable,
but I just find that a little bit unrealistic.
I'm guessing because of the timelines
they had to move in daylight.
OK, the second phase I'm looking at now,
they're coming in in the Black Hawks
and delivering the troops by what we call fast rope,
which is the ropes from the side of the aircraft.
The unrealism again in my eyes
is they're dropping right onto the target,
broad daylight,
and you're basically a sitting duck.
As for running out
in front of a 50-cal weapon,
I think that's a little bit OTT.
The grenade launcher from the small-arms weapon there
is totally overkill.
What it would do is fragmentation,
a little bit of a noise;
it certainly wouldn't burst into flame.
OK, so the first incident you see there
is what they call a coach option,
where they're about to storm a coach for whatever reason,
believing there's terrorists on it.
Now, the drills and skills and the equipment,
back in the day, is actually very correct,
pretty spot-on.
What we call rehearsals
and what they're rehearsing there is
close-quarter battle, clearing a building,
a stronghold where hostages may be held.
The drills and the skills, again,
exactly as they would have.
This is a very sort of light roll;
they'll do this five or six times.
This is a walk-through/talk-through,
then they'll do it a little bit faster,
and then eventually they do it in full equipment.
So, what I'm seeing there is actually pretty accurate.
The effects of a grenade is exactly that.
The only thing missing was probably the noise.
There's a little bit more noise to it,
but there's not big balls of fire,
there's no walls falling in and falling down,
that's exactly as it is.
It's an Arnie movie,
the way he's dressed is just ridiculous,
it's all about, "Look at my image,"
as opposed to what I'm trying to do.
He's got weapons and guns all over him.
He just fired a nuclear weapon from his shoulder.
I mean, that is just ridiculous, you know.
I've never even seen that sort of rocket launcher anyway.
And the other thing is
the enemy are running along
and firing from down here,
from the hip for some strange reason
and running in front of each other,
but no one seems to be shooting.
It's just f------ ridiculous, you know,
he stood behind a couple of leaves
and no one can hit him.
Wow.
One of those nuclear grenades again
that seem to just destroy everything
in a 50-mile radius.
Totally unrealistic.
Soldier: Of course you're afraid. You get your...
Billy: OK, my biggest criticism there is
you're on operations,
you're already in the enemy territory behind the lines,
and your weapons should already be done
and ready to go.
If they're not caught out in the open
then it's a bad use of ground.
They should have been in cover.
What the anti-tank weapons could do
that they've just fired, which is the 66,
again totally unrealistic,
unless it's a fuel bowser, it wouldn't burst into flames,
so that's just for effect.
Because of the distance,
no matter how good the sights are,
and also it's a desert terrain,
David Budd: Stay down! The bullets can pierce the windows,
but they can't get through the armored metal.
Control, Sierra Zulu Seven Nine,
status: zero Thornton Circus.
Control, Sierra Zulu Seven Nine,
status: zero Thornton Circus.
Lavender....
Billy: His sole job is to protect that principal,
so, reality, rather than curling up in his own seat,
I would have crawled into the back
and got hold of her
because you don't know what she's gonna do.
Is she gonna panic?
Is she gonna raise her head into the glass?
He really should have reacted better
by being on top of her,
getting her down low in the rear wheel
and protecting her.
David: Shooter's located on roof of
Pascoe House, one, zero, zero.
Billy: If he got her out of the vehicle,
get down with her and get her moving,
he's now starting to,
you know, try and take control of the vehicle,
which he should have done from the start, to be honest.
And again, realistically,
he's already said there's one sniper,
which how he identified was a bit unrealistic.
He should have just took her up a side street,
you can't see everywhere
from any sniper position, so.
Right now, the biggest problem with this,
if you're a bodyguard,
well, his primary role is to look after a principal.
He's now left her unattended,
all on her own, to go and be a hero.
Then he took himself out of the vehicle,
leaving her vulnerable,
then he's now left the vehicle to become a hero.
Where is she? She's on her own.
Totally not doing a bodyguard's job.
The wearing of shades,
it's very much an Hollywood thing.
That doesn't happen.
So, as you're moving through shade,
you lose all perspective.
All right, so that's the only fault
that we see with the equipment and movement
from the start.
Soldier: You mean fall off? Soldier: Yeah.
Billy: What they were actually doing, again,
is not unrealistic as in terms of tasks
that the military would do.
It would be done a lot more covertly.
It was a little bit loud,
they were not cammed up.
For whatever reason,
which I find a little bit unrealistic
is the bunching up, where they all just come together
knowing full well that they're being shot at.
The big drill is to stay away from each other,
'cause the more together, the bigger the target.
Where the rocket-propeller grenade, the RPG-7, landed
and all of a sudden everybody's catapulted in the air,
totally unrealistic.
What it actually does,
it would blow you off your feet to a degree,
but you'd be covered in shrapnel
and probably have body parts missing.
So it's a little bit Hollywoodized
with the rolling down the hill
and all the rest of the stuff.
Marcus Luttrell: Oh, my rifle.
Billy: The weapon is not a massive priority really.
If it was a person left behind, yes.
They've been in contact,
they've managed to break contact by falling back,
and now they're hidden again.
They've really given their position away again
by talking too loud
and not moving and getting the hell out of it.
Stop!
They're flying through the air,
hanging off the bottom of an helicopter, no.
That does not happen.
OK, some of the explosive entry drills,
the window charges, pretty realistic,
the door, shotgun drills on the door,
again, realistic.
Also there's grenades being thrown around in there.
Most of this is stun grenades
as opposed to fragmentation grenades.
The equipment they're wearing, from what I can see,
again is pretty realistic.
The synchronized abseiling down the wall
is a little bit dramatic.
'Cause it takes a while to set up an abseil
and do all that sort of stuff.
You just wouldn't have time to be able to do that.
It's not like you see in "Spider-Man,"
where you can just attach it and go.
Gotta get into position,
and then once it goes [snaps] noise, and then you go,
but it's not synchronized abseiling.
Did people get hung up on churches and trees?
Yes, they did.
You know, when they jumped into and around villages,
you got blown all over the place
or you were dropped in the wrong place,
so that can happen.
The way that probably happened
is a little bit, sort of, again unrealistic.
You know, you come down with one hell of a smash
and you'd probably get badly injured
as opposed to bounce around
like you're on a bouncy castle.
He's still got his reserve parachute attached to him,
and the way to get down is pull that parachute,
'cause then it'll drop down to the ground.
Unattach one side and then climb down it.
For whatever reason, he decides
to watch the show going on below him for a while,
and then decides, "Oh, maybe I should get out,"
and then starts cutting himself away, so.
There's bullets and bombs going off all around him,
but the German is alerted to the knife fall,
which is a bit weird.
Private Ryan: Over the side!
Billy: The chaos of it all,
the ridiculous sort of obstacles you come up against,
which is not just bullets and bombs,
the water getting off a boat.
So I think this is portrayed really, really well.
And having seen the tracer lines of the rounds
going through the water,
although I've not been shot at underwater,
I have seen the effects of firing through water,
and that, in my eyes, in my opinion,
is pretty realistic.
Billy: I've seen people shot in the f------ water.
I mean, it goes off at a tangent, but if you,
you're firing at a bunch of people,
you're firing randomly,
it's quite likely that something,
somebody's gonna get hit.
You know it's the same as just firing into a crowd.
It's indiscriminate.
The realism of the sounds of bullets going past you,
that's shown really, really well.
The chaotic-ness of what's going on around you,
and not just the fact that you're being fired at.
Billy: When I do find I'm watching anything
military-orientated,
I do tend to be a little bit critical about the scenes.
If I had to say I had a favorite movie
that is military-based,
I would say it's "Heartbreak Ridge,"
purely because of the influence of Clint Eastwood,
and obviously it's based on a real story.
It's a little bit dramatized,
but it's actually a quite good movie, in my eyes.