'The Covenant' a suspenseful salute to Afghanistan War translators

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'The Covenant' a suspenseful salute to Afghanistan War translators
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Guy Ritchie's latest film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim and Antony Starr, moves...

but on the many stories of heroic interpreters so, no doubt, it's more about the spirit of the moment rather than the granular, realistic details.

Gyllenhaal is predictably convincing as the no-nonsense sergeant with a wife and two kids at home in L.A. that he wants to get back to but it's Salim who so effectively plays a man with a shadowy past and potentially bleak future who also has a family he wants to see again. Salim has been steadily building a career, at first in Denmark and then Hollywood, for the last two decades but"Guy Ritchie's The Covenant" may give his profile the boost it deserves.

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