“The Covenant” is also deeply patriotic, while criticizing a dereliction of moral duty. Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the highly political, but fantastic old-school action film. Our full review by nschager:
lets its action do its preaching, with only opening and closing textual notes providing real-world context for its dramatic story.
Nonetheless, since his tactic produces results, there’s not much for Kinley to do but swallow his pride and keep a wary eye on his recruit, whom Salim embodies with a self-possessed gravity and sense of purpose that makes him appear less like Kinley’s underling than someone closer to his equal.
This two-against-many scenario is reasonably conventional by mainstream war-cinema standards, although it’s given a twist when Kinley is injured during an ensuing skirmish and Ahmed chooses to put his own life on the line in order to get Kinley safely back to Bagram Air Base. In this middle section,delivers a harrowing journey through enemy territory, where virtually no one can be trusted and detection means immediate execution.
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