The strength of 12 Strong lies simply in the raw intensity when all hell breaks loose.

Rating: 7/10 (23 March 2018)

12 Strong shows you more of the raw aspects of war and you can't really compare this movie to Saving Private Ryan or similar war flicks. Here things are getting serious and there is no beautiful storyline that makes you feel for the personal lives of the soldiers. Sure, most of them have families, kids... people to go back home after the mission is finished, but these smaller details get brushed off in a very rushed way. All you, as the audience, have to care about are the soldiers fulfilling their duty to retaliate after 9/11 took place and kick some Taliban accross the field. To make it easier for us to relate to the characters we get Mr. Thor himself with Chris Hemsworth in the leading role, who does a great job on acting though. In this constant grind of war this movie slows down from time to time and tries to give some more depth to the other men of the 12 man strong team, but in many aspects this turns out very genereric and some of this fans of war movies have seen over and over again. The strength of 12 Strong lies simply in the raw intensity when all hell breaks loose and in these moments the movie scores big time. So if you only care for that you will love this movie. But if you want some more in depth character development and a rollercoaster of emotions, you might end up being slightly disappointed.