another Hollywood blockbuster

Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2018)

The movie starts very promising. You get to know the team and what kind of mission they are facing, but the fact that almost the entire movie got spoiled in the movie title "Lone Survivor" is just sad. The title fits, but it ruins the whole movie. When for example the Apache escort gunships came, you knew something really bad was going to happen so that the two Navy Seals couldn't go home. The title also spoiled that the main character was going to be the only survivor of the four Seals that were sent on the mission.

Making a 2-hour movie out of a non-fiction book, while trying to build characters, is tricky. In this case, I believe too much time was spent up front creating the characters, while too little focus was given to the ending.
"Lone Survivor" does not disappoint in its depiction of a group of Navy Seals who fight off scores of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Confronted at the beginning of their mission with the dilemma of letting three goatherds go and risking the compromising of their mission or killing them - they let them go. The subsequent loss of all of the four Seals but one, Marcus Lutrell, and the killing of 16 of their comrades in a helicopter crash trying to rescue them
Overall, I think the movie was still a good movie and it had its good and bad moments but movies aren't always perfect.