But it is a testament to the movie's quality that, even though the movie gives almost no background information to the characters, it still managed to really make me care about them. What's worse, the title of this film gives away the ending. Even as I was writing it, I realised that it can never be truly interesting to read because the range of the story is too small. I remember as a kid I was really fascinated by the military ops and wrote a story, as good as I could, about an imaginary mission. No background stories for the characters, no side events, and barely any relationship development. It is a story about one military operation and nothing else. If there is one problem I have with the film is that it has a self-imposing limit to how big or interesting it can be. You know how just much they tried? Broken ribs and punctured lungs were involved in the making of this movie.
Again, you can feel that the people have tried to do a good job. Not in a guts-on-the-floor kind of way, but falling-down-a-cliff-side kind of way. The Afghanistan these guys are in is fake because the entire movie was shot in the United States, but it looks authentic and breathtaking. It feels that everyone is trying to do their best. Out of all the actors getting to play a part not one is bad. However, the quality of the cinematography, solid acting and good action is what makes this such a great film. A squad of US navy SEALs is dispatched on an assassination mission. Lone Survivor does not have a very original or interesting premise for an action movie. Real life is sobering in its beauty and its horror. They do not come in an hour they do not come in a day and if they come, they are not invincible. But when a movie is based on a real story, the good guys sometimes do not come. You get so many action movies nowadays following familiar formulas that when you watch one of them you know that just when the good guy is about to get overcome by the enemy, the backup arrives and helps him.
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