Drop into the jagged peaks of Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush, where four Navy SEALs—led by the unflinching Lt. Michael Murphy (Taylor Kitsch, all quiet fire)—hunt Taliban warlord Ahmad Shah in Operation Red Wings. Mark Wahlberg anchors as real-life survivor Marcus Luttrell, a Texas medic whose easy grin hides the steel that keeps him fighting. With Emile Hirsch’s eager Axe and Ben Foster’s haunted Dietz, they’re brothers forged in BUD/S hell, bantering through the boredom until a goat herder’s gaze turns their recon into a nightmare ambush.

Peter Berg’s lens doesn’t flinch: bullets rip through flesh like thunder, cliffs claim the fallen in bone-crunching freefalls, and the raw brotherhood—those desperate radio pleas and unyielding “never leave a man behind”—hits like a frag grenade. It’s visceral as hell, the mud-smeared chaos and moral gut-punch of that initial call (goat herders live or mission dies?) echoing the fog of war’s cruel math. No glory hounds here, just men outmatched but unbreakable, with a Pashtun code of honor flipping the script on salvation.

Heart-wrenching, harrowing, and a stark tribute to sacrifice. If war flicks like Saving Private Ryan stir your soul, this one’s a brutal must—grab tissues and grit.

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