War is messy, but itвЂ™s also not an excuse for wanton slaughter. The most disturbing element of BergвЂ™s script is that he seems to think the former course would have been the wiser one: Troops should waste any civilian who might be with the bad guys. The shepherds yield clues that they might be informers. Instead, they are surprised by shepherds, which leaves them the seeming only options of killing these civilians or letting them go and risk having their cover blown to the enemy. Luttrell and squadmates Michael Murphy (Taylor Kitsch), Danny Dietz (Emile Hirsch) and Matt вЂњAxeвЂќ Axelson (Ben Foster) are sent into the mountains on a mission to assassinate a Taliban leader. A training-camp sequence emphasizes agony and brotherhood in equal measure, and the takeaway from the film is that the latter is well worth the former. Writer-director Peter Berg, the вЂњFriday Night LightsвЂќ creator (and evidently one of HollywoodвЂ™s more patriotic voices) is fascinated, maybe even a little awed, with the rigor and camaraderie of the famously skilled SEALs. If the title doesnвЂ™t give away the ending, the opening does: Mark Wahlberg, as SEAL Marcus Luttrell, who wrote the memoir upon which the film is based, describes his salvation from a bloody 2005 battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan in which all of his teammates (as well as a separate, hastily assembled group of would-be rescuers) were killed. There hasnвЂ™t been this bizarre mixture of hooah and death since John Wayne hung up his combat boots. If a movie in which every Navy SEAL but one dies violently can be a feature-length recruitment video, вЂњLone SurvivorвЂќ is it. 25 at the Lincoln Square, Broadway and W.

Rated R (profanity, graphic war violence).

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