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Dec 25, 2013 · Writer-director Peter Berg's gratitude to United States servicemen for all their sacrifice comes through viscerally, from first frame to last. It's also a bloody historic episode recounted mainly in images of hardy young men being ripped apart, at screeching volume.
A true account of military courage and survival, Lone Survivor wields enough visceral power to mitigate its heavy-handed jingoism. Read Critics Reviews
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Nov 12, 2013 · Lone Survivor: Film Review. Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch and Emile Hirsch star in director Peter Berg's adaptation of the war memoir by ex-Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell.
At its core, Lone Survivor is an American war film. The team members are heroes, the Taliban are enemies, and the heroes are able to fight on like in video games or movies. For the opening 40 minutes, it is a somewhat cheesy show of soldiers bravado and training, but it works.
Jan 10, 2014 · With Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster. Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare.
Lone Survivor Reviews. Lone Survivor’s major saving grace is that it never resorts to actual flag-waving, but enough pro-military overtones subsist in the material...
Jan 9, 2014 · In the case of Lone Survivor, you commend the outstanding job done by writer-director Peter Berg in telling the remarkable true story recounted by Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell in his book of the...
Lone Survivor is a 2013 American biographical war film based on the 2007 nonfiction book of the same name by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. Set during the war in Afghanistan , it dramatizes the unsuccessful United States Navy SEALs counter-insurgent mission Operation Red Wings , during which a four-man SEAL reconnaissance and ...
Nov 12, 2013 · Film Review: ‘Lone Survivor’. Peter Berg's scorching, often unbearably brutal account of a doomed 2005 military mission in Afghanistan is perhaps the most grueling and sustained American...
Dec 23, 2013 · Lone Survivor director Peter Berg puts the emphasis on action and veneration rather than dramatic exploration and nuance in this fact-based Navy SEALs film.
