Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
”An injured soldier is saved by his Afghani interpreter who risks his own life in the process.”
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Director Guy Ritchie (RocknRolla) takes a break from his usual action movie territory to venture into war movies. Guy Ritchie's The Covenant follows American Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal), who in his last service in Afghanistan becomes the sole survivor of an ambush alongside Ahmed (Dar Salim), his local interpreter. Ahmed drags John for miles through the Afghan desert to save him, but ends up being captured by the Taliban. Feeling indebted, John decides to go back and rescue him. The script is a bit uneven and falls into many clichés of the American war genre. However, it is a captivating story that shines with Ritchie's visual style in the action scenes as well as with the performances of Gyllenhaal and Salim.
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When Sergeant John Kinley is wounded, his Afghani interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured John across miles of brutal terrain to safety.
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