Wahlberg impresses once again as sniper role in “Lone Survivor”
SEAL team members attempt to hide in an ambush by the Taliban.
February 13, 2014
It takes a lot for me to walk out of a movie theater in dead silence, and literally everyone else around me left just as quietly as I did after seeing Lone Survivor starring Mark Wahlberg as Marcus Lutrell, the sniper of SEAL Team 10. It was that good.
You could call the film intense, shocking, brutal, but overall it was completely stupefying.
Based on the war in Afghanistan, Lone Survivor enacts the Navy SEAL’s Operation Red Wings, in effort to execute the leader of the Taliban.
After Wahlberg’s great performance in the 2007 movie Shooter, he never ceases to impress me in any of his action films.
His savage portrayal in Lone Survivor of what he and his team had to go through during this operation was sickening, adding on to the ruthless plot and amazing conveyance.
Based on a true story, it made the movie extremely realistic as to the point of non-stop action and believable characters.
Everyone in the audience connected to each of the soldiers in the film, making it even more entertaining and emotional.
Some people hear “Lone Survivor”, and think “your typical action movie.”
It is not only the best war movie I have ever seen (I’ve seen too many action war movies to name), it is probably the best movie I have ever seen.
I have heard many female viewers say it was the worst movie they have ever watched due to the excessive amount of killings, brutal beatings, and harsh conditions.
Any male viewer will tell you, and especially someone who has served in the war, that it was by far the best portrayal of the war known to man.
Your typical war movie would show a soldier getting shot and killed but in Lone Survivor, if a SEAL got shot by members of the Taliban, they were tumbling down traitorous boulders thousands of feet down a hill until reaching the bottom or smashing their heads on a tree or rock.
After almost being killed several times, Whalberg was the last of his team to survive after being saved by an Afghan villager who was also endangered by the Taliban.
There is nothing more American than seeing Lone Survivor, and it is definitely a film that should not be unwatched.
See what Whalberg and his SEAL team have to offer in the gory action-war motion picture, Lone Survivor.
