All the EOD guys out here laugh at how the movie is farther from the truth on how they do things... I haven't watched it yet and I might borrow the Haji shop version, but when three EOD teams rotate through here in the last 4 months and all say it's crap... it may be just that.
As a former LE Bomb Technician, I would suspect that (hopefully) the EOD people that supplied the expertise to make this movie would stay way away from 'how they do things.' It would be pretty silly to document RSP's in a movie that potential bomb makers could watch. On the other hand we're dealing with Hollywood!
I know that I used to shudder every time I saw local new media making videos of EOD operators approaching an IED or where they set up their monitor for the robot and or setting up a disruptor or other critical moves, etc. Some even tried to tell the public what we were doing. (They were usually wrong.)
It's bad enough that at times 'bombers' want to kill EOD operators and will plant IEDS just to watch the response and every movement that the team makes in-order to set devices to kill them as well as other responders. The Brit's learned this real fast in NI.
If as the EOD teams have indicated that it is indeed crap, etc. that IMO is a good thing! Stay away from factual data of any kind! Stay with 'cut the blue wire.'
I hope RK gets to watch this movie and give her .02 cents. She's been there and done that in Iraq!
I will watch the movie if I get the chance as well.
Opps! RK gave her .02 cents when I was writing mine! I agree 100%