It turns out I was mislead regarding the sloth, however, M&C is one of the best movies I've seen in quite a while. If you are an O'Brian fan, like me, you will not be disappointed by the characterizations of Jack and Stephen. They took a number of liberties with the events they chose to include, but nothing really out of character for O'Brian. And unlike, say, Kill Bill, there is no feminization of violence (or of anything else frankly) in this movie. It's a film about men. It was a bold move, in my mind, for the producers not to add an extraneous romance element, as seems to have been done in a lot of the action/war movies of the last 10 years. It would have been quite out of place here.