Moderation is for cowards.....

Rating: 8/10 (10 May 2014)

Marcus Luttrell, and his team of Navy S.E.A.L's set out on a mission to capture or kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah.
After running into mountain Shepherds and capturing them, they were left with no choice but to follow their rules of engagement or be imprisoned.
Now Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives on the mountains, with communications down, and a seemingly endless adversary....
Here in the UK, this vanished without a trace at the Box Office, and Bergs film are either hit and miss, and plus Wahlberg's last film was the poisonous Pain and Gain, so I wasn't really too bothered about seeing it.
But then again, one should realise that a bad movie shouldn't taint your future viewing, and I'm glad it hasn't tainted mine, because this is a really good movie, with great performances from the four leads.
To say the film is intense is an understatement, as half hour into the film, the ambush happens, and it literally doesn't give up until the final credits roll.
Berg proves again, he can expertly film an extended set piece, and every fall and wound the four incur, is wince inducing and brutal, in some parts of the film, I was literally holding on to my chair for dear life.
My only gripes with the film are the title. If you've never heard of the story, it's a bit of a spoiler in itself, and some of the deaths are a bit Willem Dafoe in Platoon.
The final act is breathtaking and very touching, proving that stereotypes are rife in the world.
A really good movie all in all. The narrative is tight, and the film is executed almost perfectly. Just very, very tense.