I liked the film...alright. It was OK. It had some familiar cliches, and clues that give you an idea who might get hit or killed, not enough to know for certain, but to give you a good idea. There are some problems with the story, from my point of view, things which happen mostly in Hollywood but not so much among spec ops teams.

The plot is: Ex spec ops guys who need money agree to go on a reconnoiter mission on a drug lord named Lorena, who is sitting on millions in cash in his mountain hideaway. Big problem though, after the reccy mission the guys discuss what to do next, and that is when Pope Garcia, the guy who spent the previous 3 years chasing Lorena, admits that he lied to all of his brothers in arms. The mission is not coordinated with that country's drug enforcement agency, there is no contract to take a percentage of the cash recovered, etc. Pope has planned this as a private mission, off the books, illegal, for the purpose of getting rich....and also killing the evil Lorena.

I say this is a big problem. Spec ops guys who served together as these guys all did, who are tight with each other, who trust each other with their lives, are not liable to lie to each other, not about a mission, not about something that big. They are typically very honest with each other. If Pope was the kind of guy who would lie like that to rope his buddies into a mission, his brothers in arms would already know that about him, and they would have checked details enough before leaving to find out if he were lying to them before they ever signed off on the reccy mission.
In fact...Pope would probably not have beem on their team in the military, or afterward. He couldn't have that tendency to lie about stuff. These guys HAVE to trust each other implicitly, completely. Pope would not be on their team if he had this tendency. And he wouldn't start lying to his buddies and expect them to be alright with it. They wouldn't have been. So I call bullshit on this.
Of course, this lying to his friends is a harbinger and the audience knows it.

Moving on, the team enters the jungle drug house Sunday morning when Lorena's family is away at church, so only Lorena and his guards are there. Here I see another issue. The whole reason for going in on Sunday during church is that it meant there would only be hostiles left in the house. Otherwise the guys would not sign off on the mission. But the team shows a reticence to kill the guards. I'm sorry, but they are not innocents, they are participants. They are hostiles, paid and trained to shoot intruders.
Also, shooting someone in the leg doesn't reliably stop them from shooting you afterward. And the point of shooting those guards is to stop them shooting you. These guys are trained to shoot for center of mass chest hits. This provides the largest target area which reliably stops the opponent. They don't shoot for the leg and hope the other guy doesn't get off a shot at them. So I called bullshit on this.

Once the team discovers the cash hidden behind the drywall all over the house, they began pulling it out and stuffing it into bags. Watching the time, someone calls for the team to stop and egress. It is time to torch the house and leave. But Ben Affleck's character, Tom, suddenly displays 'gold fever', the greed that overpowers rational thought, and he insists he left enough time in his planning to allow them to stay longer and get more money! Now Tom was the mission planner, and was considered the best at it. He was the disciplined one who kept the other team members on task and on schedule in previous missions. Bank robbers display more discipline that Tom did here. Only if his eyes had turned green and he had begun giggling and tossing cash into the air could he have looked more crazed by the thought of getting rich. I call bullshit here again. I can't see someone as disciplined as a spec ops planner abandoning caution, intentionally going off plan like that.

They make it to the rendezvous with the troop helicopter and discover that the weight of all that cash and people is too much for them to clear the Andes mountains and reach the beach where the boat will pick them up. (Later when we see the boat it is clear it could not have held all those cash bags, even if there were no passengers). Team member and pilot "Catfish" Morales tells the team that the copter will crash if they try to take all the cash over the Andes. Here Ben Affleck, "Tom", again, shows a two year old child's response to being told no to something it wants. The gold fever cliche pops up as Tom tells Catfish "NO, we can't leave this cash here in the jungle". And Catfish caves in, and agrees to pretend they can somehow make it without crashing. Their greed and desire will somehow allow them to violate the laws of physics and make it safely over the mountain, overladen with cash. And none of the other team members speaks up to say "hey, we will still be rich with half this amount of money guys. Let's cut the weight to a safe amount."

Spec ops teams are incredibly disciplined and able to deal with adversity. So it is hard for me to buy this. Ordinary criminals display much more discipline that this when they rob banks, watching the clock, and leaving loads of cash when their plan says it is time to leave. So I call bullshit on this also.

"Tom" was the most reticent of the group to go on the mission. He had a daughter at home to take care of. This was a tip that he might be killed off. Hollywood often kills off such characters in their crime doesn't pay type movies (which are few and far between these days). Also, Tom made mistakes while afflicted (afflected?)

At one point, two team members (I've forgotten which two) tell each other to "watch your six", "you watch yours too". I bet if I went back to check that Ben Affleck was one of those guys, because Ben forgets to check his six in time to prevent being shot in the forehead.

Moral of the movie? Crime does not pay? Nah, the main point of the movie is that private military companies are bad. It doesn't say this explicitly. But early in the film Charlie Hunnan gives a speech to newly minted soldiers advising them to avoid the lure of cash from the private companies. And it is the lure of cash which draws each of the spec ops members to go on the fateful mission. Most pointedly, it is gold fever which causes several strategic errors and leads to the death of Tom. Sure, crime didn't pay in this film, but it is the crime of soldiers working for riches rather than country.

The acting wasn't bad, except during the gold fever scenes where the acting was overplayed. I guess they wanted to make sure we didn't miss the point. The cast has a bunch of talented actors, though they're not the best suited to play spec ops soldiers. But realism isn't what the film was going for.