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12 Strong (2018)

12 Strong poster
Directed by
Nicolai Fuglsig
Genre
drama film, action film, war film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h 10m
Rated
R
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 3,218 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A team of U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers is sent to Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks. They must work with local allies to take on a heavily armed enemy.

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What happens

12 Strong (also known as 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers) is a 2018 American action-war film directed by Nicolai Fuglsig and written by Ted Tally and Peter Craig. The film is based on Doug Stanton's non-fiction book Horse Soldiers, which tells the story of U.S. Army Special Forces sent to Afghanistan immediately after the September 11 attacks and up to the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Navid Negahban, Trevante Rhodes, Geoff Stults, Thad Luckinbill, Ben O'Toole, William Fichtner, and Rob Riggle. Principal photography began in January 2017 in New Mexico. The film was released in the United States on January 19, 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures, in standard and IMAX theaters. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the cast and action but criticized the by-the-numbers execution and lack of insight of the War in Afghanistan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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