Showing posts with label Lone Survivor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lone Survivor. Show all posts

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Lone Survivor (2013)

Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. [imdb]


Nominated for 2 Oscars:
Best Sound Mixing
Best Sound Editing


I wrote on Twitter that this film was in desperate need of Kathryn Bigelow, and I still stand by it. It's a poorly directed, exploitive film that has little popcorn fun to it, and never feels compelling enough because of some cliches and not-so-inspired directing choices. Some people fall for this, I found it offensive at times, both towards the "enemy" and also towards the real life heroes: did we really need to see the characters continuingly hitting their heads on rocks?! What was the point of that.

Oh nevermind. Not my cup of tea I guess.

My rating for the film: 5/10.