America's Best

Rating: 6/10 (13 May 2018)

Not many moviemakers can claim a movie this powerful as their first crack at directing. Chris Hemsworth plays Captain Mitch Nelson who led a band of Green Berets who fight along side an Afghan warlord and his men against impossible odds to overthrow another warlord in his heavily fortified stronghold. I liked the fact that they were forced to use horses in their mission while calling in airstrikes from American warplanes. This is a military story of courage and determination reminiscent of the great tales of World War II. Good cast and plenty of action in the forbidding landscape of Afghanistan.