* ClicheStorm:
** Creator/RogerEbert criticised the movie for "recylcling two of the biggest cliches of bad war movies. Cliche number one - the immature hot dog showoff turns into a hero when the chips are down. Cliche number two - [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy the enemy can fire thousands of rounds of machine gun fire, rifle fire, tank fire and even missiles at the guy and never hit him, but when he fires back, well he never misses]]".
** Creator/RichardRoeper made fun of its use of "[[DressingAsTheEnemy the old switcheroo on the uniform]]" (though the trope does have a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome when the switch gets his first rescue called off).
* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad General Miroslav Lokar]] is the [[InsaneAdmiral warmongering commander]] of the [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Serb Volunteer Guard]] paramilitary unit, secretly orchestrating a series of genocidal killings against Bosniaks, including [[WouldHurtAChild children]], in southern Bosnia and burying the bodies in a mass grave at the hills. Destroying the jet of Chris Burnett and Jeremy Stackhouse when they accidentally photograph evidence of his crimes, Lokar executes the latter and sends his two CoDragons on a mission to hunt for Burnett. Leading an attack against the guerillas who opposed him, Lokar kills even more people and allows his soldiers to casually massacre surrendering troops.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** The second film takes place in September 2004. If the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanggang_explosion Ryanggang explosion]] really was caused by a SEAL team sabotaging a North Korean nuke, it obviously didn't take as North Korea successfully tested a nuclear bomb in October 2006.
** Even harsher: The movie was released on October 17, 2006. That was only '''eight days''' after the North tested their nuke for real.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** The ColdSniper Sasha bears a strong resemblance to the protagonist Niko Bellic from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''. Both are also participants in the Yugoslav wars and are ethnic Serbs. Apparently Rockstar, the developer of the game, wanted Sasha's actor to play Niko, but it didn't work out.
** Sasha Ivanic also inspired TheDragon Viktor Zakhaev from ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'', right down to the tracksuit.
* QuestionableCasting: Creator/OwenWilson, who usually plays the platonic ideal of a laid-back everyman, as a military action hero? This becomes less surprising when one considers that Wilson attended a military junior college, but whether that makes him ''believable'' in the role of an action hero is up to the individual viewer (though for what it's worth, his character isn't an experienced, battle-hardened badass from the get-go, but rather an "in the rear with the gear" flight officer [[ActionSurvivor forced into badassery when his plane is shot down]]).
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Admiral Piquet does have a point about American military interventions in the 1990s in that US forces, while useful for the raw power they are capable of projecting, were often too concerned about the potential of casualties to do anything productive (though one place American intervention may have been successful is the later (and aforementioned) intervention in Kosovo against Serbia).
* ToughActToFollow: Many of Moore's films [[Film/TheOmen2006 after this one]] [[Film/MaxPayne didn't do]] [[Film/AGoodDayToDieHard well with critics (or audiences, mostly)]].
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