* AlternateAesopInterpretation: "Being a Navy SEAL is {{Badass}}" is the intended message. Yet with an outcome of [[spoiler:roughly half the team becoming casualties in the film's 1- to 6-week span, including one guy losing his eye, one guy getting shot repeatedly and sustaining major injuries, and one guy dying and leaving behind a widow expecting a child]], another moral that can be gleaned is "Being a Navy SEAL is going to hurt. ''A LOT.''"
** To reinforce the alternate aesop, the list of [=SEALs=] who "made the ultimate sacrifice" since TheWarOnTerror started at the end of the movie is shockingly long for people who have been elevated as nigh-invincible.
* CompleteMonster: Shabal is a Chechnyan Jihadist, who desires to commit terror attacks on America for Islam. His first appearance has him driving an [[BadHumorTruck Ice Cream Truck with an accomplice that's]] [[CarBomb rigged to explode]], and his target was a Phillipino school, killing several schoolchildren, including an American child and his father, the American ambassador. He then gains some bomb jackets that cannot be detected specifically because they use ceramic ball berings rather than metallic ones so they could commit terrorism on a massive scale in America and cause a collapse to society. It's also strongly implied that he forces several of his minions to undergo martyrdom against their will, as the accomplice from the car bomb is shown terrified at having to go through with the suicide bombing, and the woman he rigs with the vest to distract the [=SEALs=] when they are in hot pursuit to the tunnel is shown to be hesitant in going through with it (to which Shamal "reassures" her that she'll be reunited with her husband in heaven) and is visibly shown silently sobbing when she ends up having to go through with the suicide bombing.
* CriticalDissonance: The film received mostly negative reviews from critics. However, audiences loved it, as it earned an "A" grade from Cinemascore. Indeed, the film opened at #1, earning $24.5 million during its opening weekend, and it eventually made $81.3 million worldwide ($70 million from the U.S. alone) against a budget of only about $12 million (about how much Relativity paid to buy the film).