Marcus Luttrell 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.
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.
&#39;Long Survivor&#39; is based on the book of the same name, which recounts a small Navy SEAL reconnaissance and surveillance mission to track (and eventually eliminate) Ahmad Shah, a dangerous Taliban commander already responsible for the deaths of a coterie of American soldiers along with Afghan allies. Mark Wahlberg plays Marcus Luttrell, the only survivor of his fellow four man SEAL team who make their way into the mountains of the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.<br/><br/>The film is divided into three main sections. The opening expository section introduces us to the Navy SEALS as they participate in grueling training to go out on these extremely difficult missions (the opening footage appears to be taken during real basic training). It&#39;s a little difficult figuring out who&#39;s who but the dialogue between the soldiers feels like it&#39;s real.<br/><br/>We break into Act II, when Luttrell and three compatriots locate Shah while they&#39;re hidden in the bush on the side of a mountain. A sheep herder along with two boys run into the soldiers who now have to decide whether to kill, tie them up or let them go. Ultimately, it&#39;s Lutrell who argues they&#39;ll be charged with war crimes if they kill the Afghans, so they take their chances by letting them return to the village and then retreat up the mountain.<br/><br/>The bulk of the movie involves the four Americans attempting to fend off a big number of Taliban soldiers who are heavily armed with machine guns and rocket launchers (one of young sheep herders is seen scurrying down the mountain earlier, with the intent of alerting the Taliban).<br/><br/>Throughout Act II, &#39;Lone Survivor&#39; proves to be wholly an &#39;action&#39; film. It&#39;s extremely well filmed and choreographed, as the Americans heroically resist against overwhelming odds. At times, they&#39;re forced to dive off cliffs and end up rolling down the side of the mountains, injuring themselves severely, but still managing to return fire. Meanwhile, they&#39;re unable to phone in their position to headquarters until one of the soldiers manages to get to the top of the mountain, where finally there is radio reception. Unfortunately he&#39;s immediately taken down by the Taliban, once exposed with no cover.<br/><br/>In some ways, the folly of the initial surveillance mission is exposed. Once their cover is blown, the small surveillance team has no chance of winning against such superior numbers. Certainly, a larger force was needed in the area, to back up the team. Reinforcements do arrive in the form of two manned helicopters, but one is shot down almost immediately by the Taliban and the other is forced to retreat.<br/><br/>Once all of his buddies are killed, Luttrell must make his way out of the area after dark. He&#39;s saved by a sympathetic Afghan villager who rallies members of his tribe who resist the Taliban who come looking for Luttrell. The Americans are alerted by a mountain man who brings a map of Luttrell&#39;s position at the behest of Luttrell&#39;s Afghan protector. In reality, the Taliban did not have a face off with the villagers, as the villagers outnumbered them significantly.<br/><br/>&#39;Lone Survivor&#39; highlights the heroic actions of the Navy SEALS as well as the Afghan villagers who came to Luttrell&#39;s defense. Some critics found the film to be light on characterization but in truth, it&#39;s mainly an &#39;action &#39; film. Mark Wahlberg proves to be talented as a do or die military man along with his assorted comrades in arms. In the end, nothing is sugar coated here. In a sense, the film is symptomatic of our effort in Afghanistan where noble efforts end in failure, in an unwinnable Afghan imbroglio.
On the summer of 2012, director Peter Berg faced harsh criticism when his big-budget sci-fi action blockbuster, BATTLESHIP, flopped big time at the box office. But thankfully, Berg manages to bounce back with this impressive combat picture, LONE SURVIVOR – easily one of his best directing efforts to date. <br/><br/>WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?<br/><br/>Based on a failed &quot;Operation Red Wings&quot; mission which takes place on June 28, 2005, a four-man Navy SEALs team – Marcus Luttrell (Mark Wahlberg), Michael P. Murphy (Taylor Kitsch), Matthew Axelson (Ben Foster) and Danny Dietz (Emile Hirsch) – are sent into the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan to apprehend Taliban commander Ahmad Shah (Yousuf Azami). However, their mission is compromised when they stumble upon local goat herders. Facing a dilemma whether to kill them or to let them go, they choose the latter option – a ill-fated decision that soon cost them dearly.<br/><br/>THE GOOD STUFF<br/><br/>Kudos goes to Peter Berg for his well-paced direction throughout the two hours of this movie. He starts off with a strong setup that introduces all four main characters, sustaining the momentum, and finally hits full button with some of the most gruelling combat sequences ever staged in a war genre. Here, he doesn&#39;t skimp on the violence as well as the harsh reality of a war combat. In fact, the sequence is so intensely choreographed that you could almost feel all the pain (especially the scene where they rolled down the rocks and injured their bodies in the process) that these four main characters have to endure.<br/><br/>All four main actors give believable and solid performances. But it was Mark Wahlberg who excels the most as the last standing soldier (hence the title).<br/><br/>MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT(S)<br/><br/>The extended combat sequence between the four-man Navy SEALs team and an army of Taliban fighters.<br/><br/>THE BAD STUFF<br/><br/>If there&#39;s any flaw in this movie, it&#39;s Eric Bana. For such an established actor of his calibre, his performance as Lt. Commander Erik S. Kristensen is sadly reduced into thankless role.<br/><br/>FINAL WORDS<br/><br/>LONE SURVIVOR is definitely not for the squeamish. However, those who can stomach the unflinching act of violence, will be rewarded with one of the best post-9/11 war pictures ever made in years.<br/><br/>caseymoviemania.blogspot.com
For all his directorial shortcomings, Berg has a knack for capturing men at work; his depiction of special-ops maneuvering—of silently casing the enemy base, of planning the attack—is as compelling as the chaotic violence he orchestrates later.
Marcus Luttrell (Mark Wahlburg): Mk 12 Special Purpose Rifle.
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