Lone Survivor Review

Lone Survivor 

So Lone Survivor is the true story about four men who go out on a mission to find an Al Qaeda leader and along their journey they end up meeting some men in the woods and they might be good guys or bad guys they don't really know so they have to make a decision of weather or not to take them as prisoners and possibly shot down these guys or leave them alone and run and their decision ends up becoming the second option of letting them go, and then they get chased after by these men. So let me start by saying this movie is freaking intense, the movie is just so real and I especially loved that because of the fact that its a true story. So I want to start by talking about the opening credits of this movie, there is actual footage of people training and I loved that they showed this, it didn't really have anything to do with the movie really but I think it was great because it showed us what happens and it showed set us up for how intense this movie is because it is intense. Now something else I have to say about this intro is when the movie actually starts is that the movie doesn't have any set up which isn't a bad thing always but I just didn't really care about the characters because there was just no set up for this movie it told us their names maybe once or twice and then it went right into the action. So it was a little hard to care about the characters I guess. When the action started one of the guys would get shot and such and I just said to myself "Oh look what's his face just died" and I just think that it would have been better if I knew who he was. Now lets talk about the action, holy crap!! The movie did such a great job of this, it felt so real and it was just amazing. It was visually stunning and it just felt so real, my heart just stopped at times. I really loved it because of the fact that this is a true story. This movie can be hard to watch both for what happens and how real the action is and I think its because of the fact that its a true story. This movie is just hard to watch at times and I really think you should take caution before going in to see this movie. I should also say something about the makeup in this movie because the wounds and such in this movie was just amazing they looked so real and I could not believe that they were not real wounds. This movie is getting a little Oscar buzz and I think that this movie could get an Oscar for its make up. Now this movie had about an hour plus of action and I loved that, the movie went by so fast because of this and the movie could have even been longer and the movie would have been better if we would have seen more character development. Now something else that I really loved about how true this movie was is the fact that it showed that there are good guys across seas. I think Americans have this stereo type that if they have a beard, a turban, they don't speak English and if they live in Iraq then they are terrorists and they are bad people but that isn't true and this movie shows that. Now lastly I want to talk about the acting in this movie, I think that Mark Wahlberg could get an Oscar in this movie he does just amazing as this guy and I loved every second of his performance.

So what are the people saying? Well this movie isn't doing as well as I would have thought it would. Well a lot of people just have brought down the movie so much just because of the fact that we don't care as much as we would like, I agree that you don't really care to much but I really don't think that it makes the movie horrible like people are saying. Now some people don't like that a lot of the movie is an action movie. What I have to say to this is that this movie is a real story this happened and I think the movie is great as is when it comes to the action. I think this movie was just realistic with the action and I just loved that it was realistic like it was. Now there are some people who are saying that the movie isn't at all as close as the book or in real life and I guess I don't know if that true or not, I heard that the actual guy helped with the movie and that always just gives me some comfort and I have an easier time believing its true, so that's what I think you can have your opinion and ill have mine. Now there are also some reviews talking about war, and military and all that kind of stuff, I don't think that should make someone's rating of a movie if you agree with what we are doing across seas and all that's your opinion and eventually I will put up my opinion of that in a post soon but I'm not going to talk about that in my review because I just don't feel that it brings the movie up or down it just doesn't belong in a movie review in my opinion. Some people are talking about Propaganda and all that kind of crap along with that and you know what I don't care my ratting of this movie is of the movie itself not my opinion of that kind of crap, I will give my opinions of that kind of stuff but not on a movie review. So besides these kind of things a lot of people like this movie.

So I thought this movie was great the action was great and very real. The acting was good and this movie just felt so real that it was even hard to watch at times. So as for a rating for this movie I'm going to give Lone Survivor a 8/10.

So what did you think? Did you agree?

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The This and That Guy :)