Lone Survivor

what's with all the hate. i just watched this again, bumped it up a half star and then saw all the negative reviews. this movie is fantastic. yeah, it's a very peter berg patriotic american hero's film but it is done better than he has ever done so before. the true story that is told and his direction meld together perfectly. mark wahlberg is fantastic. everyone is fantastic. you learn one little snippet about each guy and then boom you are in the action which never ever lets up. it's exciting, it's emotional and it is heartbreaking. i loved every moment of this and again, i don't get the read more

30-second review: possibly a perfect choice for memorial day? lone survivor is based on a book co-written by marcus luttrell, a navy seal in a team sent into afghanistan with the goal of killing or capturing a taliban-allied militia leader. the very beginning of the film makes it clear that the mission goes south and marcus appears to be the titular lone survivor, so the rest of the film is hampered by that knowledge. as such, it can play as jingoistic, as us military propaganda, as toxic masculinity in action, as essentially: suffer porn. it's a visceral film, neither censoring nor read more