That's not to say it's completely restrained, by any means. In telling a tale of real-life heroism against staggering odds, this is a rousing war picture, meant to stir equal amounts of excitement and patriotism. Set soon after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, "12 Strong" is packed with protracted battle sequences, full of deafening ...
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Advertise With Us. In the wake of Sept. 11, Capt. Mitch Nelson leads a U.S. Special Forces team into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission. Once there, the soldiers develop an uneasy ...
12 Strong
Steven Prokopy Third Coast Review. 12 Strong is a thinking-person's war story, one in which deductive and clever reasoning wins the day as often as who has the most bullets and air support. This ...
Review: '12 Strong' Believes in the Brotherhood of Battle
David James/Warner Bros. Chris Hemsworth firing a carbine while riding tall and proud in the saddle — that image more or less captures what you need to know about "12 Strong," a movie with a ...
12 Strong review
An elite 12-man Special Forces group went out to Afghanistan on a top-secret mission to liaise with indigenous anti-Taliban forces and capture the strategically vital town of Mazar-i-Sharif. They ...
12 Strong (2018)
12 Strong: Directed by Nicolai Fuglsig. With Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Navid Negahban. 12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
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But "12 Strong" is a war film that wants you to feel good about the invincibility of American power. The film is built like a grungy combat video game, with each village treated like a new ...
12 Strong (2018)
First is the engaging, plot-and-character based, realistic, gritty type, e.g. Saving Private Ryan, Platoon. Second is the superficial, gung ho, all-action and nothing else type, e.g. this movie. Quite weak, formulaic and lacking in substance. From the outset the clichés start to flow and they never let up.
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'12 Strong': Film Review. Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon star in '12 Strong,' a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, fact-based actioner about a risky U.S. operation in Afghanistan.
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12 Strong is set in the harrowing days following 9/11 when a U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth), is chosen to be the first U.S. troops sent into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission. There, in the rugged mountains, they must convince Northern Alliance General Dostum (Navid Negahban) to join forces with them to fight their common ...
12 Strong 4K Review: An Underrated War Movie Worth Revisiting
12 Strong 4K Review: Final Verdict. The 12 Strong 4K release is a welcome one. The Chris Hemsworth-led action movie tells an interesting post-9/11 story of a really remarkable true story that led ...
12 Strong Review: A Well-Intentioned Tribute To Real Heroes
12 Strong works as a tribute to the real-life American heroes who lived it, but is an overall generic war film without much substance. The latest film from veteran Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer, 12 Strong marks the feature film debut for director Nicolai Fuglsig. It tells the true story of a declassified mission from the outset of America's war on terror, in which a small group of ...
12 Strong Review
12 Strong is a fascinating untold story about real heroes, the ensemble cast feels mostly like a semi-realistic band of brothers although some are sadly underused and underwritten. The no holds ...
12 Strong
12 Strong is a previously classified true story populated by heroes. ... Movie Review. It's called the "Graveyard of Empires," and for good reason. The dry, mountainous, untamed and untamable land known now as Afghanistan baffled Alexander the Great. It brought the British Empire to its knees at its Victorian peak.
12 Strong Review
12 Strong isn't a film that we will be heavily reflecting on when we get closer to the end of the year and look back at both the best and worst that 2018 had to offer -- but it is a surprise as a ...
12 Strong Review
12 Strong Review. In the aftermath of 9/11, army captain Mitch Nelson (Hemsworth) is sent to Afghanistan to lead a secret 12-man mission deep in Taliban territory. Working alongside a volatile ...
12 Strong Movie Review
Our review: Parents say ( 12 ): Kids say ( 10 ): This is a solid war movie that manages to be patriotic while at least scratching the surface of the complexities of American involvement in Afghanistan. The filmmakers behind 12 Strong make a good effort to establish what these soldiers have at stake at home, but the movie's focus is on the ...
12 Strong review: A rousing post-9/11 war movie, but not an
For a movie produced by red-meat action maestro Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Thor himself as the face of camo-clad vengeance, 12 Strong somewhat surprisingly manages to fall (just barely) on the ...
12 Strong
12 Strong (also known as 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers) is a 2018 American action-war film directed by Nicolai Fuglsig and written by Ted Tally and Peter Craig.The film is based on Doug Stanton's non-fiction book Horse Soldiers, which tells the story of U.S. Army Special Forces sent to Afghanistan immediately after the September 11 attacks and up to the fall of ...
12 Strong
A movie review by James Berardinelli. 12 Strong represents a recent war as depicted on screen in an old-fashioned way. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, war movies followed an established template that pitted the "good guys" (often Americans) against the "bad guys.". Such films focused on battles and usually ended with a hard-fought victory.
12 Strong 4K Review: An Underrated War Movie Worth Revisiting
12 Strong 4K Review: Final Verdict The 12 Strong 4K release is a welcome one. The Chris Hemsworth-led action movie tells an interesting post-9/11 story of a really remarkable true story that led ...
Movie review: The little-known story in '12 Strong' is an excellent
Written by Ted Tally and Peter Craig; directed by Nicolai Fuglsig. With Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Pena, Navid Negahban. Rated R. It's early morning on Sept. 11, 2001. Captain ...
12 Strong 4K Ultra HD Review
12 Strong is an action-war movie starring Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon and Michael Pena released in 2018. The 4K Ultra HD release from Warner comes with two featurettes. 12 Strong. (2018) Genre (s): Action, Drama, War. Warner Bros. | R - 130 min. - $24.98 | May 14, 2024.
12 Strong Movie Reviews
"12 Strong" is set in the harrowing days following 9/11 when a U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Hemsworth), is chosen to be the first U.S. troops sent into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission.
12 Strong 4K Review: An Underrated War Movie Worth Revisiting
As our 12 Strong 4K review explains, this post-9/11 war movie starring Chris Hemsworth is worth checking out again. It's been tricky making movies about September 11 and the ensuing Afghanistan War. We've seen some distasteful attempts, straight-up propaganda, and then the bizarre tacking on of the tragedy to a Robert Pattinson romance movie .
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W idely regarded as director Sidney Lumet's best movie, 12 Angry Men (out now on Prime Video) is one of the best courtroom dramas ever to grace the silver screen.Released way back in 1957, age ...
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That's not to say it's completely restrained, by any means. In telling a tale of real-life heroism against staggering odds, this is a rousing war picture, meant to stir equal amounts of excitement and patriotism. Set soon after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, "12 Strong" is packed with protracted battle sequences, full of deafening ...
Advertise With Us. In the wake of Sept. 11, Capt. Mitch Nelson leads a U.S. Special Forces team into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission. Once there, the soldiers develop an uneasy ...
Steven Prokopy Third Coast Review. 12 Strong is a thinking-person's war story, one in which deductive and clever reasoning wins the day as often as who has the most bullets and air support. This ...
David James/Warner Bros. Chris Hemsworth firing a carbine while riding tall and proud in the saddle — that image more or less captures what you need to know about "12 Strong," a movie with a ...
An elite 12-man Special Forces group went out to Afghanistan on a top-secret mission to liaise with indigenous anti-Taliban forces and capture the strategically vital town of Mazar-i-Sharif. They ...
12 Strong: Directed by Nicolai Fuglsig. With Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Navid Negahban. 12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
But "12 Strong" is a war film that wants you to feel good about the invincibility of American power. The film is built like a grungy combat video game, with each village treated like a new ...
First is the engaging, plot-and-character based, realistic, gritty type, e.g. Saving Private Ryan, Platoon. Second is the superficial, gung ho, all-action and nothing else type, e.g. this movie. Quite weak, formulaic and lacking in substance. From the outset the clichés start to flow and they never let up.
'12 Strong': Film Review. Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon star in '12 Strong,' a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, fact-based actioner about a risky U.S. operation in Afghanistan.
12 Strong is set in the harrowing days following 9/11 when a U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth), is chosen to be the first U.S. troops sent into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission. There, in the rugged mountains, they must convince Northern Alliance General Dostum (Navid Negahban) to join forces with them to fight their common ...
12 Strong 4K Review: Final Verdict. The 12 Strong 4K release is a welcome one. The Chris Hemsworth-led action movie tells an interesting post-9/11 story of a really remarkable true story that led ...
12 Strong works as a tribute to the real-life American heroes who lived it, but is an overall generic war film without much substance. The latest film from veteran Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer, 12 Strong marks the feature film debut for director Nicolai Fuglsig. It tells the true story of a declassified mission from the outset of America's war on terror, in which a small group of ...
12 Strong is a fascinating untold story about real heroes, the ensemble cast feels mostly like a semi-realistic band of brothers although some are sadly underused and underwritten. The no holds ...
12 Strong is a previously classified true story populated by heroes. ... Movie Review. It's called the "Graveyard of Empires," and for good reason. The dry, mountainous, untamed and untamable land known now as Afghanistan baffled Alexander the Great. It brought the British Empire to its knees at its Victorian peak.
12 Strong isn't a film that we will be heavily reflecting on when we get closer to the end of the year and look back at both the best and worst that 2018 had to offer -- but it is a surprise as a ...
12 Strong Review. In the aftermath of 9/11, army captain Mitch Nelson (Hemsworth) is sent to Afghanistan to lead a secret 12-man mission deep in Taliban territory. Working alongside a volatile ...
Our review: Parents say ( 12 ): Kids say ( 10 ): This is a solid war movie that manages to be patriotic while at least scratching the surface of the complexities of American involvement in Afghanistan. The filmmakers behind 12 Strong make a good effort to establish what these soldiers have at stake at home, but the movie's focus is on the ...
For a movie produced by red-meat action maestro Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Thor himself as the face of camo-clad vengeance, 12 Strong somewhat surprisingly manages to fall (just barely) on the ...
12 Strong (also known as 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers) is a 2018 American action-war film directed by Nicolai Fuglsig and written by Ted Tally and Peter Craig.The film is based on Doug Stanton's non-fiction book Horse Soldiers, which tells the story of U.S. Army Special Forces sent to Afghanistan immediately after the September 11 attacks and up to the fall of ...
A movie review by James Berardinelli. 12 Strong represents a recent war as depicted on screen in an old-fashioned way. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, war movies followed an established template that pitted the "good guys" (often Americans) against the "bad guys.". Such films focused on battles and usually ended with a hard-fought victory.
12 Strong 4K Review: Final Verdict The 12 Strong 4K release is a welcome one. The Chris Hemsworth-led action movie tells an interesting post-9/11 story of a really remarkable true story that led ...
Written by Ted Tally and Peter Craig; directed by Nicolai Fuglsig. With Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Pena, Navid Negahban. Rated R. It's early morning on Sept. 11, 2001. Captain ...
12 Strong is an action-war movie starring Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon and Michael Pena released in 2018. The 4K Ultra HD release from Warner comes with two featurettes. 12 Strong. (2018) Genre (s): Action, Drama, War. Warner Bros. | R - 130 min. - $24.98 | May 14, 2024.
"12 Strong" is set in the harrowing days following 9/11 when a U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Hemsworth), is chosen to be the first U.S. troops sent into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission.
As our 12 Strong 4K review explains, this post-9/11 war movie starring Chris Hemsworth is worth checking out again. It's been tricky making movies about September 11 and the ensuing Afghanistan War. We've seen some distasteful attempts, straight-up propaganda, and then the bizarre tacking on of the tragedy to a Robert Pattinson romance movie .
W idely regarded as director Sidney Lumet's best movie, 12 Angry Men (out now on Prime Video) is one of the best courtroom dramas ever to grace the silver screen.Released way back in 1957, age ...