Such obsession with accuracy makes what Berg does with creative license for the rest of the story so self-contradictory. It is “realistic” combat imagery born of the Black Hawk Down Zeitgeist and it is effective. All this work serves to paint the actors and the action as very mechanically convincing. Berg even went so far as to study the autopsy reports of the dead team members recovered from the site and he replicates fanatical detail in uniforms and procedures with close oversight from SEAL advisors.
It is ruthless injury porn, the wounds gathering on the men and their ammunition running out. Berg captures the SEAL team’s torturous descent down the rock slopes with gripping intensity, perfect sound effects and tight editing.
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They choose the latter, are betrayed for their mercy and their attempted escape from Afghan guerrillas is a violent series of ever worsening scenarios. His team’s surveillance position is quickly compromised by unarmed goatherds and the team debates the benefits of killing them to protect themselves or freeing them out of moral or military obligation and suffering the consequences. Their mission soon explodes into an operation gone terribly wrong but we have not yet been able to really bond with our heroes.įilmed in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico, the sweeping vistas establishing the arid Afghan landscape are actually images from our own American frontier and Luttrell’s story has all the elements of a Western. Opening with powerful documentary footage of SEAL training, it then hurries through the template required for lead character introductions in order to get us into the fight.
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Though based on Luttrell’s bestselling memoir of same name, be prepared to see a Hollywood movie instead.
Mark Wahlberg plays real life Marcus Luttrell, who we know to be the only survivor, and we follow him and the doomed members of his team through their ordeal. It depicts Operation Red Wings where, for their part, a four man SEAL team is tasked with locating and surveilling an enemy militia leader from a mountain in Afghanistan. It is a biopic and a memorial, both ultimately cheapened by concessions to the action genre and an inability to fully humanize its characters. Lone Survivor is a film with a serious identity crisis.
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