Review: The Fascinatingly Lone Survivor

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The Fascinatingly Lone Survivor
A rush of adrenaline enters your body, making the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Shivers run down and through out your whole body as those first few pictures appear on the screen. Every bit of attention is dragged from within realizing its all real life, and not another fiction movie. Thus, making it that much more exciting. The build up of emotions for our military personnel, The Loan Survivor instills deep down while your sitting on the tip of that seat while in immense excitement, observing surreal encounters our men, and women face everyday, is indescribable. In this 2014 War-Triller release, director Peter Berg immerses us completely into the horror main character Marcus Luttrel and his team of
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“Seal team 10” composed of the four-man group, the “Good” guys, take the fight to a young, but cruel leader Ahmad Sha, and his “Evil” Taliban group in a realistic, gun fight, called Operation Red Wings. Their hopes are to identify, and either capture or eliminate the target, Ahmad. In this nail bitting thriller, the four highly trained, special ops, navy seal, team find themselves facing some of the fatest, well prepared bad guys they have ever encountered as stated by Danny Dietz, “They’re fast man! Are they really that fast? Are they Faster than we …show more content…
6). Wounded severely, tired, and just plain worn out, Marcus keeps on moving remembering what his captain, Michael Murphy stated before he sacrificed his life to reach a cliff that would allow signal to his satellite phone, which would result in military backup, “Marcus, never end the fight!” Wahlberg does a fantastic job expressing the importance of hope, and what it takes to go for beyond what the mind, and body can

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