Joins the ranks of the great modern war movies

Rating: 10/10 (31 December 2013)

I have been waiting years for another great modern war movie and been disappointed by the endless straight to DVD dross that they keep churning out. I had my hopes up for Act of Valor but that turned out to be a badly acted and less than average movie. You know what I'm talking about if you're a big war movie fan; Saving private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, Tears of Sun, We Were Soldiers, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Bravo Two Zero, Rescue Dawn and Enemy at the Gates. These are Great War movies, you care about the characters, there is some realism and they are highly entertaining. So how does Lone Survivor compare? It is more than deserving of a place alongside these movies! The heart pumping, adrenaline filled tension never let's up and you feel every bullet and grenade like you're really there. Obviously certain parts were dramatised but so what? It's a movie deal with it. I see that reviews on IMDb so far are very mixed. A lot of the people complaining are saying that it is too unrealistic and that the team couldn't have been shot that many times. Well the director visited the parents of the dead members of the team and the father of Dietz revealed from the autopsy report that his son was in fact shot 11 times. So there may be some embellishment but the facts it is based on are all sadly true. This is a truly great war movie, I hope it gets the acknowledgment it deserves.