Peter Berg directs a film with very high-highs and very low-lows, and in between a lot of waiting, a lot of blood, a lot of cursing and probably the most violent film of the award season. One guy wants to buy his new bride an Arabian horse, another wants to live to see tomorrow, and Mark Wahlberg, wants to just survive the mission at hand.
The mission is Afghanistan, the Taliban, and the three days of bloody hell that follow. This is what World War II was to Band of Brothers. This is five guys in a squad, a brotherhood. Eric Bana leads the Navy Seals on their mission where split second decisions can save or end lives. War is politics. Is the kid on the mountain a soldier or a goat herder? If they kill him, will they be known for shooting innocent civilians or will they be heroes for bringing down perhaps the child’s connections to the terrorists.
Usually when a story becomes another movie half way through, that’s a bad thing, but in this, the story improves, but it’s a stretch that it might earn an Oscar nomination. ♕ ♚ ♛