Regrettably, nothing special

Rating: 5/10 (4 March 2014)

Not a bad movie, but it will soon be forgotten.
If you have read the book, you will have already noted that there are some serious disparities between Luttrell's account, and the findings of the military investigation. Luttrell's book claims he and his team fought 'hundred's' of Taliban, killing large numbers of them. The militaries own investigation showed around 10 Taliban were involved, with an unknown number killed. Given about 20 odd American military personnel were killed in this engagement or in the flawed rescue attempt, that's a significant 2:1 butt-kicking at least the Seals took from the Taliban. A fact conveniently ignored in the book and the movie.
Secondly, there is a fair bit of liberty taken by the director that doesn't give Luttrell credit for the far more severe hardships he endured in this event, mainly by compressing the period between the gunfight on the mountain with his rescue into just a couple of days or so. Read the book: the author is one incredibly tough guy!
Finally, just too many clichés that are now becoming standard in these types of movies (or have been long established archetypes).
1. The portrayal of pre-battle Seals as lovable, cuddly guys just there to do a job, who spend a lot of their time talking about choosing colors for the kitchen, or just being darn cute. This imagery seems to have replaced the usual cliché of the doomed soldier who pulls out the picture of his girlfriend and tells his foxhole buddy "This here's Mary-Lou, she's the girl for me", and subsequently gets shot (Platoon has the best portrayal of this cliché).
2. Slo-mo deaths. No idea why this is necessary, but it's been common for decades.
3. The cavalry arriving in the nick of time. Didn't happen in the book, doesn't happen in real life, but happens in just about every American war movie I have ever seen. Yawn.
4. The cliché that people, for some reason, pass out when pain gets extreme. I don't know where this comes from. Admittedly this would be a handy physiological mechanism, but it doesn't happen in real life: ask a paramedic.
So all up, ridden with cliché's. An OK movie, but will disappear out of memory pretty swiftly.