Review Of Lone Survivor
Andrew M.
Watching
movies like Zero
Dark Thirty and
Captain
Phillips,
you might get the impression that Navy SEALs are immune to failure.
That they're bulletproof superheroes dressed in camo. But Peter Berg
wants us to see a different side of heroism in Lone
Survivor —
the
side sometimes found in defeat. Lone
Survivor is a book made into a movie. Marcus
Luttrell(Mark Wahlberg) 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. A four man seal team, which
included team leader Michael
P. "Murph" Murphy;
snipers Marcus
Luttrell and
Matthew
"Axe" Axelson;
and communications specialist Danny
Dietz, goes
in to the heart of Afghanistan and after a couple of farmers blow
their cover, it turns into a race to the chopper having to fight
through the Taliban.
The film opens with a real-life montage of the SEALs' notoriously
arduous training process. Berg, who also wrote the screenplay, lets
that prologue do a lot of the heavy lifting for him in terms of
character development. Right off the bat, we know that these soldiers
are low-paid patriots being put through the wringer to protect our
freedom. The film does not go straight into the situation a hand
going into Afghanistan. This is a great artistic decision by berg
because it lets you get to know the characters because before the
seals go to get briefed they show each character taking to there
loved ones.
I would recommend this book/movie for anyone like violence or
military movies or books. This is a fantastic movie and was nominated
for an Oscar. If you and ever get a chance to see to the movie or
read the book I would highly recommend it.
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