Lone Survivor (2013)

Lone Survivor (2013)

7/10

Starring

Mark Wahlberg

Taylor Kitsch

Emile Hirsch

Ben Foster

Eric Bana

Directed by Peter Berg

Lone Survivor is the name of the movie, and from the title, you can guess that in the end, there’s only one lone survivor. From the posters, you can also tell it’s Mark Wahlberg, so no surprises there.

Well, I guess a movie about soldiers dying for their country will always earn the audience’s respect, but that’s not what made Lone Survivor cool—it was the screenplay. The movie started with the regular intro of all the cast members, then it showed us the situation at hand, and then there was a huge bang. From that point on, the movie stayed on a high right up to the very end. That’s what makes Lone Survivor cool—the high. I’m not a drug user, but I can bet the high this movie delivers is equal to what a user might get from drugs, just saying.

The acting isn’t something you’d even want to criticize—it was first-class. The intensity was engaging, and at every turn, there’s something that makes you not want to miss a thing. The movie starts, by trying to make you feel in just a few minutes of the intro, the pain of the dead soldiers’ families. I do not know if that worked for everyone. Now, while the intense battle scenes keep the adrenaline high, the lack of emotional depth for the secondary characters holds the movie back.
Peter Berg did a great job with the screenplay adaptation of the book Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson, which is based on a true story.

Class is what this movie delivers, and the sound is just epic. The sound of the gunfire caught my attention after I watched a clip about how guns really sound—the clip was trying to debunk some Hollywood myths. I was impressed by how this movie made good use of sound.

The film is based on SEAL Team 10's failed mission: Operation Red Wings on June 28, 2005. The mission aimed to capture and kill a notorious Taliban leader during the War in Afghanistan. (Source: Wikipedia) 

At the end of the movie—before the credits roll—we’re shown the real soldiers who took part in this failed mission. I highly recommend this movie for everyone to see. It’s one that I believe will stand tall when you’re rating the best of the best in war movies.

Now I do not know how true the plot is, in comparison to what happened but, it was fun to watch.