I’m definitely late to the party but I finally got to see it last night and WOW!! it awesome! I love how they kept the theme and feel of the original. One of the best movies I’ve seen in a while.
how TF does a US carrier get into a landlocked sea??? Did they get 7,945 chinooks to airlift it there? Enquiring minds want to know.
Ok, minor spoiler ahead: we hear within the first few minutes of the movie that the mission will be against a secret isotope facility blah blah blah in Iran. The end of the movie has the mission, and y'all may have noticed a lot of snow in the valleys etc., because we skiers notice snow. Well, there is snow in Iran, up north. Here's the weird thing: they launch from a carrier and land back on a carrier (those that make it, eh?). Again, not ABSOLUTELY impossible if the carrier were in the Caspian Sea for the snow (if the carrier were in the Persian Gulf or Gulf of Oman, there wouldn't be snow). So, here's the question: how TF does a US carrier get into a landlocked sea??? Did they get 7,945 chinooks to airlift it there? Enquiring minds want to know.
Of course, there is one other question - why wouldn't we have just used missiles against the facility? (Answer: because then we wouldn't have needed Tom Cruise, and that would be unacceptable).
Yeah, but they didn't - the carrier was right up close to the (river?) valley that they all flew along ... [And yes, I am being silly - I enjoyed the movie thoroughly!]@RobSN : They can launch from carrier, fly towards destination, refuel in flight to have loitering fuel in target area. They can refuel in flight on the way back to the carrier. They don't have to fly there and back on the initial fuel load.