The new movie 12 Strong has just opened in theaters.  Based upon the declassified story of the 12 American Special Forces troops who went into Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, the movie celebrates American exceptionalism.  For that reason, the American left hates it. 

Just as with "American Sniper", leftist critics pan the movie and its portrayal of the evil enemy.  Folks, that's reason enough to go see it.  If that's not enough, there's more.  While critics pan the movie, almost three-quarters of real people love it.  The rest of real people who don't like the movie?   Who knows.  Some of them probably don't stand for the National Anthem, the Pledge of Allegiance or the American flag.

Hollywood in Toto covers it.  H.I.T. stands as a rare conservative movie critic site and Christian Toto calls out the Left and their partisan attacks on the film.  Some of the criticisms of the movie, as compiled by Toto, boggle the mind.  Take this bit of analysis from Slant:

…masses of faceless Taliban fighters drop to the ground like flies as tiny traces of CGI blood spurts into the air before quickly vanishing.  Fuglsig particularly revels in the destruction caused by bombing raids, which he often captures in sweeping aerial shots that give us a bird's-eye view of the awesome might of the American empire. That the men who die in these battles might not be purely “evil,” that they too might have families, friends, and lovers, is a nuance that 12 Strong doesn't care to discern…

That the Taliban American forces killed might not be purely "evil"?  You mean like the people who execute little girls for receiving an education beyond age 8 – along with those who teach them?  For men who force all women to wear a burqua in public?  Then there's the public beatings and floggings by the religious police.   How about a woman who had her thumb amputated for the crime of polishing her nail.  Or the girl with her nose and ears cut off and left for dead?  And the list goes on and on. 

Pardon me if I, and millions of other Americans, don't give a squat about some Taliban's pet sheep that doubles as his lover.  Or bacha Baz – otherwise known as man-boy love Thursdays.  Look it up.

Perhaps we could take a collection for a one-way ticket to Kabul International Airport for the Slant Magazine writer.

Here's the trailer:

There's more.  Much more over at HIT.  Here's a teaser:

CRITICS SLAM ’12 STRONG’ – JINGOISTIC FILM TREATS TALIBAN BADLY

Are your tears of rage flowing yet? 

Some film reviewers aren't pleased to see the U.S. Military shown in such heroic fashion. Let the pearl clutching commence.

Film critics didn’t exactly throw their arms around the new action film “12 Strong.”

The movie currently sits at 54 percent “rotten” at RottenTomatoes.com. The film beat studio projections over the weekend all the same, earning $15.8 million along with an “A” CinemaScore. RottenTomatoes.com users offered a much more friendly 75 percent “fresh” rating.

Imagine that…  real Americans love a classic American film.  The critics?  Well, America haters are gonna hate.  Their tears of rage will flow.  And you know what we do with those, right?

The critical consensus? A well-meaning war film filled with too many genre cliches. Other critics took the film to task in ways that remind us one irrefutable fact.

The majority of modern film critics lean to the left.

Some do more than let their ideology shine through. They’re aggressively partisan in their critical approach.

Toto also included this about the Washington Post's whining review:

The Washington Post, where bias thrives in darkness, is upset that the Green Berets tell the wrong kind of jokes. Some of the dialogue is “inflected with an unsettling gallows humor that renders the real-world gravity of the situation unserious.”

Does the critic have any idea of how a soldier’s mind operates? How humor, particularly the jet black variety, is a coping mechanism in times of stress?

Oh heavens!  Coarse, non-politically correct humor. 

But wait!  Is any humor politically correct?