Realistic Looking SEAL Mission

Rating: 8/10 (10 January 2014)

I saw "Lone Survivor", starring Mark Wahlberg-2 Guns, Ted; Taylor Kitsch-Savages, Snakes on a Plane; Emile Hirsch-Savages, Alpha Dog; Ben Foster-The Mechanic-2011, Alpha Dog and Eric Bana-Hanna, Black Hawk Down.
This movie is based on a true story that was written by Marcus Luttrell, the only surviving Navy SEAL team member of a mission in Afghanistan in 2005-and I'm not giving anything away here by saying only surviving member, look at the title of the movie-and he also has a cameo in an early scene of the film. It's directed by Peter Berg-Battleship, Hancock, The Kingdom-with a realistic looking, no holds barred approach. The movie starts by showing some of the training the SEALs actually go through, and through-out the rest of the movie, you get the sense of the type of person it takes to become a SEAL. The mission for SEAL Team 10 was to go in and kill a high ranking Taliban leader in Afghanistan. Mark plays Marcus, with Taylor, Emile and Ben rounding out the 4 man squad. Eric was the military officer giving them their orders. After they made their drop behind enemy lines, the problems began. There were more Taliban holed up at the location than they expected. They ran into goat herders-rules of engagement were argued here-and due to the mountains, they had problems with their radios. Pretty soon, they were in a pretty lop-sided fire fight. I must say that these were some of the most realistic looking battle scenes that I have ever seen. FYI: During the end credits, there are photographs of Marcus and other soldiers shown, and on a side note, Marcus is from Houston. It's rated "R" for the bloody violence and language and has a running time of 2 hours & 1 minute. I enjoyed it and felt proud of our military and I would buy this on Blu-Ray.