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12 Strong

Torridon Films

Alcon Entertainment

Black Label Media

Jerry Bruckheimer Films

16:14 Entertainment

United States of America

English

Chris Hemsworth

Michael Shannon

Michael Peña

Navid Negahban

Trevante Rhodes

Geoff Stults

Thad Luckinbill

Austin Stowell

Ben O'Toole

Jack Kesy

Fahim Fazli

Austin Hébert

Kenny Sheard

Elsa Pataky

Yousuf Azami

Taylor Sheridan

William Fichtner

Rob Riggle

Yasmine Aker

Marie Wagenman

Kevin Kent

Lauren Chavez-Myers

Seth Adkins

Allison Gabriel

Mustafa Haidari

Shawn Lecrone

Frank Powers

Martin Palmer

Laith Nakli

J. Nathan Simmons

Veronica Díaz-Carranza

Peter Karas

Ali Olomi

Shvan Aladdin

Kenneth Miller

Tim Aydelott

Matthew Van Wettering

James Joseph Pulido

Shawn Sarmeidani

Anouar H. Smaine

Nour Bitar

Edward Butron

Christian Pedersen

Arshia Mandavi

Nate Boyer

Adrian Luna

Benjamin Poe

Perla Daoud

Michael E. Stogner

Lawrence Gilligan

Tommy Truex

Jay Moore

Sofia Chicorelli Serna

Mic Rodgers

Lee Briggs

Paul Docherty

Arliss Gammill

Alexandra Greene

Dean Guiliotis

Juan Carlos Huerta

Michelle Kee

Ryan R. Moos

Ricardo Quintero

Dmitry Vinnik

Derrick Mitchell

Mike Accettura

Johnathan R. Banta

Julien Barbault

Gavin Carlton

Teague Chrystie

Fenner Rockliffe

Justin Schenck

Shawn Broes

Robert Nicholas Dauphinais

Marco Aurélio Engelmann Santos

Chris Van Dyck

Francois Cote-Paquet

Roger Nall

Calvin Romeyn

Gong Myung Lee

Marco Marquez

Makana Sylva

Bo Howe

Shailey Horton

Esdras Prudente

Ivan Andres Guerrero

Sam Gutentag

Robert Schajer

Milton Muller

Daniel Schrepf

Rob Del Ciancio

David Piombino

Sinisa Radosavljevic

Joao Bogossian

Brandon Kachel

Nate Smalley

Antoine Cosset

Jonathan S. Smith

Chris F. Moore

Lauren Aspden

Camil Adell

August Coleman

Richard Kratt

Abishek Nair

Goran Ognjanovic

Anthony N.

Lorne Balfe

Nicolai Fuglsig

Jerry Bruckheimer

Wilhelm Pfau

Daniel J. Lester

Doug Stanton

Peter Craig

Ted Tally

Tad Griffith

Troy Sizemore

Kevin Duran

Christi Hennessy

Christopher Glass

Derrick Ballard

Bjarne Sletteland

Liz Buckler

Emma Rentz

Darwin Montana Browne

Mackenzie Oneil

Wyndi Johnson

Molly Smith

Curtis Akin

Jo Edna Boldin

Curtis Corbitt

Josiah O'Neil

Anji Bemben

Bill Holmquist

Shiloh Kidd

James Lawrence Sicard

Grace Esquibel

Ian Hanna

Scott Christopher Clark

Steven Cueva

Rasmus Videbæk

Rachel Lively

Joshua Swanson

Bryan Perkal

Delana Veirs

Trent Luckinbill

Alanna Levy

Jaime Fernandez

John Papsidera

Lori McCoy-Bell

Jonas Steadman

Mara Herdmann

Steven Finestone

Gimly

Not really my sort of thing, but I can't go so far as to say that it's "bad". It's a little formulaic and it's a lot American patriotic (ironic given that the star is Australian), but it's... I guess "professional" is the word that best suits it? I wouldn't begrudge the target market for enjoying _12 Strong_ is what I'm saying.

_Final rating:★★½ - Not quite for me, but I definitely get the appeal._

In every aspect a decent war film with a story worth telling. Too bad the cast doesn’t get to shine enough, but the technical aspect, the score and the fact that it's based on a true story still make ‘12 Strong’ worth a watch or two.

8/10

It’s a bitter irony that 12 Strong was released only three years before Kabul fell faster than Kevin Spacey’s career. Then again, this movie has as much to do with the war in Afghanistan as the Arab uprising has to do with Lawrence of Arabia — which is exactly where director Nicolai Fuglsig and screenwriters Ted Tally and Peter Craig seem to have gotten their idea of General Dostum (Navid Negahban), whom they have filtered through George C. Scott's Patton, and given a Historical Hero Upgrade.

Generally speaking, the film lives in its very own fantasy world. Granted, most movies take liberties, but what 12 Strong does is more akin to libertinage. It purports to depict "one of the US military's most stunning achievements," which Al Quaeda "considers ... to be their worst defeat."

The former... sure, why not? As for the latter, though, Al Quaeda may or may not consider it its "worst defeat," but even if they did, methinks they wouldn’t be caught dead admitting it, so the question is, who exactly is your source?

Furthermore, we learn that the real-life General Dostum and Captain Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth) "remain close friends to this day" — which means that you’re never too old to have an imaginary friend, what with Mitch Nelson being a fictional character and all (based on Green Beret commander Mark Nutsch, who I assume had the good sense to not want to be associated with this dumpster fire).

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Chris Hemsworth

Michael Shannon

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Geoff Stults

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Ben O'Toole

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