This was pretty good, I enjoyed seeing Tina Fey take on in a more serious role, here she's a N. Y reporter, bored and frustrated with her life who decides to take a 3 month assignment as a foreign correspondent in Afghanistan. Very much out of her element 'Kim' is embedded with a marine unit and comes into her own.
It was interesting watching Kim get addicted to the adrenalin and not living in the "real world" anymore and actually thriving in her new life. She ends up staying much longer than 3 months, becomes party pals with Margot Robbie, has a romance with drunken, womanizing, Scotsman Martin Freeman, and befriends Billy Bob Thornton, a fiery U. S general -his role is small but stood out, a great character. Worth a watch.
Apparently this movie is based on the book "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan" by real-life TV reporter Kim Barker.
It was interesting watching Kim get addicted to the adrenalin and not living in the "real world" anymore and actually thriving in her new life. She ends up staying much longer than 3 months, becomes party pals with Margot Robbie, has a romance with drunken, womanizing, Scotsman Martin Freeman, and befriends Billy Bob Thornton, a fiery U. S general -his role is small but stood out, a great character. Worth a watch.
Apparently this movie is based on the book "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan" by real-life TV reporter Kim Barker.