AMBUSH Review: The Dogs Of War Captured In A Single Brutalizing Message
Filmmaker Mark Earl Burman hasn’t solo-directed a full feature in more than twenty-five years, but he’s worked within capacity as a producer on dozens of titles in addition to several more acting and screenwriting credits. His sophomore effort treads familiar territory for fans of compelling military and survival dramas with Ambush, tracking back to 1966 during the Vietnam War with the story of a mission gone awry. That mission is assigned by General Drummond (Aaron Eckhart) to Green Beret Captain Mora (Gregory Sims), to be on hand at a remote base camp on the edge of the jungle to receive a package being ushered by two army units. The package in question: a highly-sensitive intel binder containing a list of the names and locations of Vietnamese operatives working with the U.S., something which has only just become news to the camp’s C.O., Corporal Ackerman (Connor Paolo), who has been under […]