It took the BBC to tell this gripping story honestly and with authenticity. Definitely recommended to you who like realistic stories like Tom Clancy's books. This is very impressive for a TV movie and Sean Bean most certainly doesn't make it worse. The story is not about how many enemies they killed. It is rumored though that McNabb exaggerated a bit on how many enemies they killed but this isn't a very large factor in the story. No champagne or beautiful women.' And enemy is not portrayed as villains or dumb like in oh so many Hollywood films. This is a real story about a real James Bond. Not much clichéd hero stuff but rather to quote that guy who first told me about McNabb: 'It's about misery. The film continues to be very realistic all the way through. it then cuts to a title card which says that this is a true story accompanied with the song 'Londons Calling' by The Clash. a composition of old Gulf War footage and news reports.

The opening montage of this film sucked me straight in. The film Bravo Two Zero tells the story about eight SAS soldiers who was sent behind enemy lines in The Gulf War. I haven't read anything by McNabb yet but I think i will. Later on i saw Heat and I was very impressed. And he said that many people reacted very well to the fact that everyone in that movie held their guns and rifles correctly and changing the clip in a professional way. I hadn't seen Heat at the time but he recommended it because McNabb was a technical weapons training adviser on it. He said if I liked Clancy i should check out Andy McNabb. I talked to him for a long time and we got talking about books and I mentioned I was a big Clancy fan. Dirty, deadly, and fought outside the rules.I was first told about Andy McNabb from a half-insane guy who played the main character in a movie which was shot in my home town. Filled with no-holds-barred detail about McNab's capture and excruciating torture, it tells of men tested beyond the limits of human endurance. They were fabulous.- John Major, British Prime Minister. I'll tell you who destroyed the scuds - it was the British SAS. Their only chance at survival was to fight their way to the Syrian border seventy-five miles to the northwest and swim the Euphrates river to freedom. The weather turned cold enough to freeze diesel fuel.

Dropped into -scud alley- carrying 210-pound packs, McNab and his men found themselves surrounded by Saddam's army. They are the true unsung heroes of the war.- Lt. In January 1991 a squad of eight men went behind the Iraqi lines on a top secret mission. They were British Special Forces, trained to be the best.

Bravo two zero the real story