Political detective or war drama, call it what you will, but this movie belongs to a very special genre of films about the brutality and absurdity of reality and power.
Colonel Childers' (S. L. Jackson) squad is tasked with evacuating the civilian-attacked American embassy in Yemen. Arriving on the scene, the Colonel stages a bloodbath. Now presented before a military tribunal, he will have to answer a lot of questions, democracy turns against its own defender. The only one who can help is his old friend Colonel Hodges (T. L. Jones). Agreeing to defend his friend before a tribunal, he will go to great lengths to gather evidence and arguments in his friend's defense.
This isn't the kind of movie where there's a lot of gunfire, where everyone wearing a U.S. military uniform is a super hero. If you think war ends with the last shot, this movie will prove you otherwise.