I liked the movie but be honest. These dudes were missing kill shots with rpgs the entire time, expect for when they had a big ass target. It took these dudes a while to kill Ben Foster, who was already dead sitting up against a tree. The film took to the time outta his death scene to showcase how shytty of a shot these guys were.
Not to mention how a 1 -2 round burst will make a arab backflip but several bullets and shrapnel wont put down an American?
I know this isn't DEVGRU/Seal Team Six, but Team Six in its first year shot more ammo in training than the entire US Marine Corps. That's from an old Richard Marcinko book (the founder of Seal Team Six) so it may be hyperbole, but SEALs shoot a lot. All the time. They're arguably the most ruthless killers with the best weapons systems and training on the planet earth. They were using rifles with optics and they had thousands of hours behind the trigger. They're fighting farmers/villagers that probably have a very basic at best understanding of military tactics.
The SEALs are putting highly lethal ammo center mass or in the head, so they're going to drop the bad guys quick. The Taliban were spraying and praying. In the book Marcus details the wounds, which the movie pretty much followed as far as I could tell. There's also a difference between a gunshot that will kill you right away from trauma and a lethal wound. It's very likely that Dietz and Murphy had unsurvivable wounds. Meaning they could be shot on an operating table and be shyt out of luck. That doesn't always translate into instant death, and the mentality of these men is so strong that they will fight until their body shuts down.
I do agree the movie went out of it's way to show that with Foster's death. In real life no one knows if it went down exactly like that, since it took them longer to find Axelson than Murphy and Dietz. When Marcus and Axelson were hit with the RPG and separated, Marcus assumed that Axelson had died, so the search team didn't find his body where Marcus told them it would be. It was days later that they found Axelson further into the valley with pistol shell casings all around him, which let them know that he had continued the fight after the RPG blast.
I have mixed thoughts on the movie. I felt a few lines were forced "You can die for your country, I'm gonna live for mine" but overall the movie told the story of Marcus' account. It was true to the book. Which I think is all Peter Berg wanted to do. Still on the fence about Emile Hirsch in this movie, but whatever. Minor complaint.