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All movies seen on 04/20/2023

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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)

Directed by Guy Ritchie

War | Action | Thriller

Most recently watched by VicnaLobster, CaptainBigTime, sensoria

Overview

During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.

Rated R | Length 123 minutes

Actors

Jake Gyllenhaal | Dar Salim | Sean Sagar | Jason Wong | Rhys Yates | Christian Ochoa | Bobby Schofield | Emily Beecham | Jonny Lee Miller | Alexander Ludwig | Reza Diako | James Nelson-Joyce | Gary Anthony Stennette | Saboor Sahak | Antony Starr | Abbas Fasaei | Hadi Khanjanpour | Ash Goldeh | Walid Shahalami | Babrak Akbari | Fariba Sheikhan | Savannah Fort | Kieran Fort | Javid Hakim | Shoaib Lodin | Marcus Glimne | Javier Ramos | Altamasch Noor | Marcel Zadé | Paeman Arianfar | Ali Nazarian | Damon Zolfaghari | Mo Ahmadi | Swen Temmel | Cyrus Khodaveisi | Sina Parvaneh | Abdullah Noori-Nooristani Sunara | Ahmad Zaki Watandost | Kawa Mawlayee | Matthew Hawksley | Jonathan Hunt | Sergio Martí | Paula Leiva | Timothy Siddall

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

In my delirium of not enough sleep and a long day of traveling I thought this was the last day for this movie in theaters so it was a last chance to see it… welp, it’s the first day? Anyways, I decided to hit the 7pm showtime questioning whether or not I’d stay awake and also not knowing a thing about this movie other than it’s Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant and that soldiers are on the poster.

I’m ready to say that Ritchie is probably in my top five working contemporary directors (for big productions / Hollywood / mainstream movies). Kinda crazy to say that esp. since I haven’t seen all his work but I’ve seen most. Ritchie just makes this kind of dad film (recently) that I enjoy.

This is an odd duck from Ritchie where he plays the (American) Nationalism card but w/o shoving it the viewers face. yet it is a tad strange to see a modern war movie so black and white (“we good, they bad”) with little to no questioning of said war or actions / events presented, which is more akin to post-war WWII films than new post-war (Vietnam / Gulf etc) movies we’ve seen. Perhaps that could be a turnoff for some but I dug the direct-to-the-point, good vs bad, man on a mission story.

Plus FWIW I’m a big Jake Gyllenhaal fan and love seeing him in roles like this.

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