Restore Faith in Humanity.

Rating: 10/10 (27 July 2014)

I know absolutely nothing about being in the service, so I can not vouch for the authenticity of the material exposed in this movie. There is no way for me to know what is real and what is a Hollywood exaggeration, except of course common sense-- nonetheless I kept telling myself, "Its based on real events".
These war themed movies tend to really affect me and really make me rethink the way I view the war and the people who volunteer to go.
These guys are brothers, they spend every day together, and have this fondness for each other, that they channel in the movie, and doubt this is a reality. At the beginning of the movie, it shows the extreme training they got through, and hopefully they make it through the whole training. Then comes the conflict later on during the movie when they are discovered by these Taliban "shepherds". The inner conflict of whether they should eliminate the enemy, or let them go, and buy some time........ fine, they go with the most "sensible" decision of letting them go, but it takes a turn for the worse, and after that I was unable to contain myself. I felt like I was in the battlefield myself; paranoia all around.
After all the war scenes, comes my favorite part. This part restored my faith in humanity, and really made my choke up. Lutrell is found by a man,and his son and they take him under their cover. Just like Lutrell, I could not understand why he'd done this, and put his whole village in danger. Its later explained in the movie, but this really was the boiling point for me. It's even greater because I have the sense of satisfaction that this part was not scripted or made up, but actually happened.WITHOUT SELFISHNESS, HE OFFERED HIS HAND FOR HELP.
There are so many things in this movie to talk about that I would be here all night just raving on and on about this awesome movie. Everyone in this movie took charge of their role. I cant imagine the irony of this story; Lutrell wanted to do the right thing in NOT killing these Talibans, but in hindsight, if he had, maybe this whole story wouldn't exist.