Based on a true story, director Peter Berg's Lone Survivor stars Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster, and Emile Hirsch as four Navy SEALs whose sensitive mission into the Afghan mountains is unexpectedly compromised, leading to a fierce skirmish with a small army of Taliban soldiers. Shortly after arriving at that new location and getting a positive ID on their target, three shepherds, including a young boy, caught the soldiers off guard. Then a heated vote over what to do with the captured shepherds them to decide that the best course of action is to abide by the rules of engagement, meaning that the soldiers will abort the mission, release the captives, and retreat to their extraction point. Shortly after the shepherds are set free, however, the four SEALs find themselves surrounded by dozens of Taliban soldiers, and engaged in a fierce gunfight that Three of the four men ended up giving the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

I seen a lot of mixed reviews saying the director could of done more to show out the characters more and that the movie had a lot of cheesy saying and the overall movie could have been better. Also that the movie was not portraying actual events that happened out there. But I honestly feel the director portrayed the film very accurately with the events of the book which were recounted by Marcus Luttrell from his first hand view. Instead of having a Hollywood treatment wrapped around the actual story, Director Peter Berg lets the events themselves provide the drama without the artificial insertion of character development. Me being in the Military and seeing war first hand I personally feel like it was one of my favorite movies that came out in awhile.

In this review the written by Stephen Whitty he states that if the director actually got into the characters more and with this story line it could have been a Great War movie. And that the audience never sees any thing about this characters besides four strong men fighting for our country. But to me in the military there is no “I” Especially during combat and I feel singling any of them out would be a disgrace to the uniform. Why do we need to know them personally all we need to know is what they did for our freedoms? I give compley kudos for the director for putting this together so people know what’s really going on over there, and what our soldiers do ever day for our freedoms.

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