There are extra scenes during, or after, the end credits of Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant. I would recommend the 2nd one because it’s mostly a montage and flashbacks. That’s just shameful.Ībout The Peetimes: I found three good Peetimes. And many more were murdered, along with their families, after the US pulled out. These guys put their lives on the line, and many of them died. The only sacrifice I’ve had to make for my country is going out of my way to vote when the weather is bad. I have no problem saying that men like Ahmed deserve US citizenship more than I do. That’s just not acceptable.Įvery single interpreter, and as many family members as they wished to bring along, should have been relocated to American soil and given citizenship once their term was up. But what I do know is that every American should be ashamed of how it ended, and in particular how the interpreters and their families were left twisting in the wind. Should we have been more involved, less involved, or not involved at all? I don’t know. I don’t have strong feelings either way regarding the Afghan war. But oddly, at least to me, the story manages to thread the needle between those two. I feel that it should have either been more tragic or more heartwarming. Knowing that means they could have ended the movie any way they chose. The movie is based on a patchwork of actual events that happened during the Afghanistan war, but it is not a direct biography of actual people.

As soon as he said that I knew how the movie would end and I just waited for the heroic ending. The mercenary/security character Parker mentions sending in an Angel of Death. And so there wasn’t very much drama, at least for me.Īnd honestly, since the movie sort of spoiled itself I’ll say it here. I didn’t know how the movie would end, but I suspected how it would end. I feel like the characters who died weren’t fleshed out enough for me to really care that much. For those who haven’t seen it yet, I don’t want to spoil any of the details of the movie, but I’ll say that the story wasn’t as gripping as many war movies that I’ve seen before.

The Island Stallion by Walter Farley