Mercurial

Let's start with the title. Was somebody on acid? Explain to me why. Thanks.
Now, let's go for the most obvious flaw of this movie, the lack of character.
Nice good ol' clean SEALs, all of them being patriotic and professional, giving their lives doing their duty, accepted.
"They are no packages, they are people": unrealistic, although admissible.
Doing a 30 mile march trying to evacuate some refugees - missions change, although I doubt a SEAL would let their emotions change the scope of theirs.
The undertext that USA would go to the extremes of the world to fight for democracy - tell that to the citizens of Salvador, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Panama, Afghanistan, Chile, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Cuba ... I don't really have the time. But military intervention by the USA has been successful only in WWII. All the other ones have been utter fiascos.
Point is, the first messages are doubtful - are we watching some kind of antiwar movie? Will I get out of here feeling the same as when I saw Mel Gibson's "we were soldiers"?
We are watching a pro-war movie, but one in which the hero is the front line man, putting career and all other considerations aside for doing that which is right. Which, to me, sounded as a wake up call to the Armed Forces: You have a conscience, use it! Do not go into war just because you are told to do it!
Silly me.
It was, on the contrary, a vehicle for glorification of any attack the USA may inflict on countries that oppose its policies: You may have 300 heavily armed elite troops, but we will wipe you out with couple fighters. You may have killed 20 villagers, OK, so now we just killed your 500 men in just one minute. See, we are the USA: we have better planes, better weapons, better justification.
War is highly ritualistic - disgusting, but ritual, nevertheless.
Also, pretending that coming in and enforcing their democratic equal rights ideals through the use of silenced pistols and selective killing is akin to showing that the USA is far better, much more knowledgeable and absolutely right, and meanwhile unleashing all kinds of "Old Testament" fury on those who dare oppose its doctrine of freedom, equality and democracy, is going to work, is utter nonsense. USA has been the perfect proof of this all the 20th century, with the one exception already mentioned.
Speaking of equality, "For my people", as the C would say, never mind that he is the token black guy.
And the dialogue. Please, they make look Arnold as a gifted thespian! Not that you would care to see whether they actually talked or not. It looked as if the army slogans were sifted through the cheapest Madison Avenue consultant on cheap pot, so bland and morose.
The objective of the movie is lost on me, then: To show that killing machines have a heart? To show that highly trained soldiers can jeopardize a mission because the object has big breasts and funny accent? To show that no matter what, at the end of the day we will bomb the hell out of you? To show that we can cause more deaths than you? To show that we can contribute to the refugee problem, by creating more refugees? To show that the USA can muddle and escalate a foreign internal conflict?
Oh, they should have put the recruiting stations before the movie started.