So far, just another commercial adventure.īut the film's real-world resonance, shallow but there, points toward a burgeoning trend on screen, for works centring on the 20-year-long US war in Afghanistan, which ended when their military left in 2021. In the kind of single-handed exploit that only happens in movies, after Kinley returns home and learns that Ahmed and his family are being hunted by the Taliban for having helped the Americans, he returns to Afghanistan to try to save him. Jake Gyllenhaal plays John Kinley, a US army sergeant in Afghanistan in 2018, whose life is saved by his Afghan interpreter, Ahmed (Dar Salim). And like so many war films it relies on a slender plot about heroic choices. Guy Ritchie's The Covenant is an intense action movie, full of gunfire and explosions that make you feel caught in the midst of danger.
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