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Critic Reviews for Lone Survivor

Remove the fact that this story actually happened, and it’s just an action movie

Matt Goldberg, Collider

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Lone Survivor isn't perfect, and it's not necessarily comparable to Saving Private Ryan when it comes to well-rounded characters or cinematic quality

Ethan Anderton, First Showing

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This one's an adrenaline- packed ride all the way

Reagan Gavin Rasquinha, The Times of India

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'Lone Survivor' no doubt accomplishes everything it wants to achieve: It drops the viewer right in with the SEALs, makes you admire their toughness, bravery and abilities, and puts you through the wringer

Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

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This is a movie purely about modern day warriors, no more, no less, and for many, myself included, it will linger in their thoughts long into a sleepless night

Paul Shirey, JoBlo.com

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As visceral as all four make the pain, it is the raw emotions that are so riveting

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

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Lone Survivor laces action with moral questions that haunt and provoke

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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An oddly heroic tone mars this visceral account of an abortive mission by US forces in Afghanistan

Mark Kermode, The Guardian

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This film about Navy SEALS facing a moral dilemma is a chest-beating, testosterone-fuelled action movie at heart

Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

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It will be interesting to see how viewers along the ideological spectrum will interpret 'Lone Survivor' mainly because the film itself eschews politics and partisanship

Alonso Duralde, The Wrap

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The relentless, action-packed Lone Survivor ultimately forgoes depicting these brave SEALs as men in favor of martyrs

Matt Patches, IGN

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Overall though heart-wrenching, brutal and life-affirming, the film due to the glamourisation of the conflict exhibits a Hollywood feel to a realistic narration

IANS Source, Bollywood Life

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Peter Berg's scorching, often unbearably brutal account of a doomed 2005 military mission in Afghanistan is perhaps the most grueling and sustained American combat picture since 'Black Hawk Down'

Justin Chang, Variety

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As long as you do not go into the morally right or wrong and watch the movie just as entertainment, you would be suitably enthralled

Mini Anthikad Chhibber, The Hindu

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Peter Berg ill-advisedly gives the full Hollwood treatment to the true story of an ill-fated US Navy Seal mission in Afghanistan

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

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It is a hard-hitting, bloody account of a failed combat mission, giving enough time to the man who survived, as well as to the men we lost

Sean O'Connell, Cinema Blend

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The film is a bloody walk in the sun

JP Devine, The Morning Sentinel

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The Movie is about encountering a small group of shepherds in the mountains, and blighted by faulty comms equipment, the marines soon find themselves hopelessly outnumbered and retreating before a wall of bullets

Jamie Graham, Total Film

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'Lone Survivor' is brutal and relentless but plays less as a film, and more as a piece of awkward American propaganda

Thomas Harris, Flickering Myth

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This film is a hard watch, but certainly a worthy one

Colin Biggs, GotchaMovies

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It is a modest, competent, effective movie, concerned above all with doing the job of explaining how the job was done

AO Scott, The New York Times

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