The recent revelation about Russia-paid bounties to Taliban forces for killing American soldiers adds an eerie and tragic timeliness to. Rod Lurie's film depicting the real-life story of one of the bloodiest battles of the Afghan War possesses an inevitably haunting quality due to the strategic blunders that led to vastly outnumbered U.S. soldiers suffering a potentially devastating attack.
At first, it may be hard to keep up with the plethora of information and characters presented, even with the frequent use of helpful onscreen captions. The film is set entirely at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located in a valley at the base of three mountains. The ill-chosen location essentially made the dozens of soldiers stationed there sitting ducks, both for random small-scale attacks and the eventual attempted invasion by some 400 Taliban militants.
Among the more harrowing episodes are a soldier getting blown to bits by an IED, with one of his colleagues in shock after witnessing the event, and a troubling encounter with a young Afghan man taking pictures at the camp. Viewers would be well advised not to get overly attached to all of the characters, since several of them don't make it past the 30-minute mark.
The screenplay by Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson isn't quite as successful in fully engaging us with the principal characters. But director Lurie, who himself graduated from West Point and served four years in the military, makes up for it with his obvious affinity for the brave soldiers whose story he's telling.
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