
Marcus Luttrell, a Navy Seal, and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. After running into mountain herders and capturing them, they were left with no choice but to follow their rules of engagement or be imprisoned. Now Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare.... (Full plot summary below)
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Marcus Luttrell, a Navy Seal, and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. After running into mountain herders and capturing them, they were left with no choice but to follow their rules of engagement or be imprisoned. Now Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare.
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| Film Journal InternationalChris Barsanti...one of the most dramatically lean and excruciating combat films ever made. |
| TrespassSarah WardThough the film predictably finishes on just one of its number, it is in the many that Lone Survivor's components best succeed. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe War is Hell film, even though apolitical and pro-military, raises the question if America's heavy blood sacrifices are worth it for such an unwinnable and hard to define war. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenPro-military battle film with a lot of graphic violence, blood and awful wounds. This tale of savage warfare also begins and ends with acts of noble courage, self-sacrifice, compassion and decency. |
| NPRElla TaylorBerg is relentlessly unsparing - in Lone Survivor, we discover what it is like to topple downhill from rock to rock, and what it is like to reach for your gun and find that your hand is missing - but never Tarantino-sadistic. |
| AspectRatio.usMatt Kelemen... a nail-biting, visceral narrative that falls off a little toward the end only because it is a chronologically faithful to Luttrell's story. Berg's enthusiasm is felt throughout ... |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Jeff MeyersIt glorifies these soldiers, much as Zack Snyder canonized the Spartans in 300, as cartoon symbols of American heroism. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekCaptures the intensity of the 2005 mission...[but] fails to go beyond first-rate reenactment ...to a deeper assessment of how and why it happened in the broader context of the war. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertGripping, unrelenting, brutally proficient moviemaking, a just-the-facts war movie about four Navy SEALS on an Afghan mission gone fatally wrong. |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelDuane DudekThe Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have spawned some powerful documentaries, but few memorable narrative films. The fact-based drama "Lone Survivor" is not the first to be set there, but it is surely the most horrifyingly intimate. |