Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Embedded (2012)

Cattle are disappearing and the locals think it’s either wolves or grizzlies. Reporter James and cameraman Tom are irritated they were sent to cover the story.  They’re used to covering the war in Iraq, but James made an enemy by sleeping with someone’s wife and has been relegated to less exciting stories.

While they at the press conference, a pick up truck crashes in the street and a hysterical man inside screams, “It has my boy.” A posse is formed and teams of hunters head out to try to track down the beast and rescue the twelve year old boy that’s missing.

Deputy Clyde doesn’t want James or Tom to come on the hunt. He was a Green Beret and they were with his unit in Afghanistan and he has issues with them.  They are not great at blending in. They’re constantly annoying the members of the posse, and butting in or commenting at the wrong times.

It’s hard to believe Tom is a professional cameraman since he can’t focus through branches.  He’s going to miss a lot if he has no idea how to manually focus on his subject.  Also odd is that when someone in the posse disappears in the midst of chaos, no one thinks to look at the footage they’ve shot to figure out what happened and kind of animal it was. 


Ridiculous dialogue

Rescue: Where is everyone? Over.
Sheriff:  They’re dead. Over.
Rescue: Is this a prank? Over.


Continuity - the eyes


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