This was thoroughly engrossing, taut, and - I've read somewhere - a very accurate portrayal of life on the front line in Afghanistan.
Mark Wahlberg is one of four Navy Seals airlifted into the mountains to hunt down a Taliban leader. I don't want to give away too much of the plot - aside from there being just one survivor of the mission, but their task takes an early swerve toward disaster when they encounter a group of goat herders and decide to let them leave rather than kill them.
This was another of the current crop of movies based on a true story. I don't know whether that made what could have been a me-too war caper into a gripping fight for survival, but maybe it did, and it was.
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