SAS - Are You Tough Enough? - Uncut DVD

Considerations of national security permitting, there is a fascinating series to be made about the selection procedures and training of the Special Air Service, but SAS: Are You Tough Enough is not it. This is basically Big Brother joins the army, in which 29 civilians are subjected to a dramatically reduced version of the SAS induction process (10 days instead of six months). Although it's essentially just an outdoor game show, the series is presented with an air of gravitas which suggests that someone, somewhere in the commissioning process seriously believes that... this proves something. But the few contestants who end up passing the course are no more qualified to join the regiment than the owner of a Playstation flight simulator is to land a 747. SAS: Are You Tough Enough is trying to have its rations and eat them. To the extent that there is a point to reality television programmes, it's that all the mystique of television is stripped away. Here, though, we're expected to believe that the mock interrogations are desperate, dramatic contests of will--which is difficult when we know full well that there's a camera crew in the room. Mildly diverting it might be, but Are You Tough Enough is neither informative nor entertaining.--Andrew Mueller [show more]

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