![]() ![]() If, on the other hand, you’re seeking wall-to-wall action and a brutal reminder of the horrors of war, you could do a lot worse than Lone Survivor. If you’re looking for meticulous characterisation, plot twists and witty dialogue, this is probably not the film for you. With so many of their problems caused by failure of communication – the team’s radio, then satellite phone fail, leaving them stranded, and Luttrell’s attempts to get a knife from a friendly villager to dig shrapnel out of his leg results in him being presented with a duck – it’s ironic that the script doesn’t really communicate any individual personalities to us either. While their suffering is undoubtedly unpleasant to watch, we don’t feel emotionally connected to them. If anything, Berg may be in too much of a hurry to get to the horrors of the battlefield, so we don’t really get to know any of the characters first. The film has picked up some flak for its jingoism, but although the whooping, testosterone-fuelled early scenes can be a little irritating, once we’re into the horrors of the situation in the field, depicted with brutal realism and making the most of both visual and aural effects to portray the team’s increasingly desperate condition, I find it hard to believe anyone could leave the theatre thinking they’ve just witnessed a pro-war rallying cry. The mission is compromised virtually before it has begun and the bulk of the film deals with a succession of violent turns for the worse as the men are pinned down, shot literally to pieces and take it in turns to die, along with a further 16 Navy Seals in a failed helicopter rescue mission, until just one, Marcus Luttrell, escapes to tell the tale – a non-surprise thanks to to the spoiler of a title. Lone Survivor tells the tale of the doomed real-life Operation Red Wings, in which four Navy Seals are sent to the mountains of Afghanistan to track the Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. Lone Survivor 2013 Movie starring by Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch, Taylor Kitsch. This Online Free Movie movie in theaters on and get rating R. Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Emile Hirsch, Taylor Kitsch LONE SURVIVOR will be released by Universal Pictures in platform engagements on Friday, December 27, 2013, and will go wide on Friday, January 10, 2014. ![]()
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