{"id":373260,"date":"2011-04-07T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/07\/armadillo-this-fly-on-the-wall-documentary-certainly-captures-the-boredom-of-waiting-for-something-to-happen-in-war\/"},"modified":"2011-04-07T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T22:23:14","slug":"armadillo-this-fly-on-the-wall-documentary-certainly-captures-the-boredom-of-waiting-for-something-to-happen-in-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/07\/armadillo-this-fly-on-the-wall-documentary-certainly-captures-the-boredom-of-waiting-for-something-to-happen-in-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Armadillo: This fly-on-the-wall documentary certainly captures the boredom of waiting for something to happen in war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"71.657323688969\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Chris+Tookey\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Tookey<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 11:23 PM on 7th April 2011<\/p>\n<p><span>Verdict:<\/span> Overpraised doc about Afghanistan <\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span><span><span title=\"Armadillo: This fly-on-the-wall documentary captures the boredom of waiting for something to happen in war\n\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"Chris Tookey\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"2011-04-07T23:23+0100\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nRating: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rating\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/b90drating_showbiz_2.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"9\" alt=\"2 Star Rating\" title=\"2 out of 5\" \/><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>Armadillo is a glib, superficial, fly-on-the-wall<br \/>\ndocumentary about Danish soldiers serving in Afghanistan. It\u2019s quite tedious<br \/>\nfor much of its length, but it certainly captures the boredom of waiting around<br \/>\nand sharing an uncomfortable lifestyle with people you\u2019d rather not spend time<br \/>\nwith.<\/p>\n<p>The film livens up towards the end and finds a reason to<br \/>\nexist, when the soldiers are ambushed and \u2014 rather than take any prisoners \u2014<br \/>\ndecide to kill the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Chris Tookey Last updated at 11:23 PM on 7th April 2011 Verdict: Overpraised doc about Afghanistan Rating: Armadillo is a glib, superficial, fly-on-the-wall documentary about Danish soldiers serving in Afghanistan. It\u2019s quite tedious for much of its length, but it certainly captures the boredom of waiting around and sharing an uncomfortable lifestyle with people you\u2019d rather not spend time with. The film livens up towards the end and finds a reason to exist, when the soldiers are ambushed and \u2014 rather than take any prisoners \u2014 decide to kill the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Armadillo: This fly-on-the-wall documentary certainly captures the boredom of waiting for something to happen in war - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/07\/armadillo-this-fly-on-the-wall-documentary-certainly-captures-the-boredom-of-waiting-for-something-to-happen-in-war\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Armadillo: This fly-on-the-wall documentary certainly captures the boredom of waiting for something to happen in war - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Chris Tookey Last updated at 11:23 PM on 7th April 2011 Verdict: Overpraised doc about Afghanistan Rating: Armadillo is a glib, superficial, fly-on-the-wall documentary about Danish soldiers serving in Afghanistan. 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