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Kajaki
British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine.
Release : | 2015 |
Rating : | 7.1 |
Studio : | Head Gear Films, Lipsync Productions, Metrol Technology, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Mark Stanley Malachi Kirby Ali Cook David Elliot Paul Luebke |
Genre : | Adventure Drama Thriller War |
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Excellent, Without a doubt!!
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
KAJAKI: A TRUE STORY is a simple, small scale tale about a group of British soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Unfortunately their squad wanders into a mine field, men are trapped and wounded, and the survivors have to figure out how to get everyone out of the situation. This was a true story and it's a film made with a decent premise, but if I'm truthful I was expecting more. The first third of the film feels like padding, attempting to introduce the characters but failing to make them interesting or likeable. Mark Stanley, best known as Grenn in GAME OF THRONES, bags the lead role and is miles away from his best-known character. Once the action shifts to the mine field the tension increases, but it does flag a little before the credits roll. My main gripe with this is that the script is pretty bone-headed, constant swearing and repetition; I would have preferred no dialogue at all to this.
The film is definitely very, very realistic; and that is what makes it very, very boring. With all respect for the real victims of that action, I am still bound to review a movie, and the paradox is that the movie pays a big price to hyper-realism; essentially, you see three men jumping on three mines on a goat track at the bottom of a valley in Afghanistan, and you then spend a hour and half watching them suffer, bleed, scream. The camera indulges very often in very realistic and crude close up of truncated legs, arms, fingers and various injuries. The reality of the action must have been absolutely dramatic, and the courage of some of the soldiers remarkable; unfortunately, this does not make a good movie.
I've never seen a movie capture what it is to be a soldier better. British, American or whatever. Watch this - it's history not a film.There have been many films made about Afghanistan/Iraq over the last few years and they are all afforded a degree of Hollywood Licencing. The Hurt Locker being an excellent example, almost good but ruined by pandering to a less intelligent audience.If I was asked to describe what being a soldier is I could only ever point to this film. There is nothing there that is overdone or underdone. It just is what it is meant to be.
It is an intense movie depicted on the Kajaki Landmine Incidence. The acting and graphics are realistic and takes the viewer to the war scene. The movie starts off showing the life of Nato soldiers deployed in Afghanistan. One day, 3 soldiers go on a regular scan of an area. One of them steps on a landmine and looses a limb. Others come to his rescue but become victims of more land mines. A rescue chopper ends up blowing up a landmine injuring more. In the end, a chopper with a winch rescues all of the soldiers. Three of the soldiers loose their life. The movie does a great job of showing these intense moments and keeps the viewers always on the edge expecting a landmine to blow up every other second. The movie does justice in showing the extreme pain that soldiers endure during this incident.