Saturday, 22 November 2014

SEAL recruiting film

Lone Survivor (2013)

Directed by Peter Berg this film based on real events stars Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster and Eric Bana. A four man Navy SEALs team goes on a reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan but are discovered by the Taliban.

It seems the events of this film stick fairly closely to real events even if there are a few changes here and there. What disappoints me about the script is that it focuses on the brotherhood of being a SEAL rather than the more interesting relationship between the survivor and the locals that aid him. There is plenty of realism in the execution of the film and it is really well made but I am not sure it does a lot to stand out against many similar films out there.


3/5

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