This film plays like Inglouriuos Basterds but is trying to be Black Hawk Down.
That's exactly why it's so intriguing. You two are giving Greengrass too short a shrift, especially comparing it to Scott's po-faced effort, or the woeful sermonising of
Crash.
There's more to it than just comparing visual reality and apparent "veracity" to the machinations of the plot, which struck me as far more nimble and playful - and yes, playing with the tropes of the genre quite explicitly for me - than a lot of the Gulf War efforts of the past 5 years.