Film Review - Lone Survivor (2014)

Lone Survivor is directed by Peter Berg and stars Mark Wahlberg as Marcus, a US soldier during Operation Red Wings in 2005 but during the Operation judgments start to fray and the mission soon becomes at risk of failure.

Lone Survivor is actually a very good film and Berg is a big reason for this, having made that dreadful turkey Battleship in 2012 where all that was done was him being dictated terms in regards to how to do the movie here he has near complete creative freedom and it really shows in the style and structure of the film, the action here is also superb especially a Mountain gunfight that shows action scenes with teeth at long last, here you do feel the violence, you do feel the pain and you do get the intensity and may I say it's about fucking time as I am sick to death of 99.9% of action films these days wimping out on their violence so they can get a piddling PG-13 rating, time for that to stop.

Not only that the film is also very well acted, Wahlberg is superb in his role and he really holds your attention here, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster and Eric Bana are also very good in their scenes and the location work here is great, never failing to give you a sense of the place these men are in.

All in all, Lone Survivor is a very good Soldier film with some terrific action and good acting, do catch it when you get the chance, 3 and a half out of 5.