Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
4.85/5
Based on 52 votes and 23 reviews.
Please rate between 1 to 5 stars
May 3, 2023
Powerful and inspiring, infuriating and maddening. I love that interpreter! He didn't have to sacrifice his everything, but he did. Truly, no greater love is there than to lay down one's life for a friend. OMG! Is this a true story? How can we possibly sit back and let our friends/interpreters/allies sit back there and rot, or be tortured? it's criminal what we did, and Heroic what this interpreter did.
May 3, 2023
If you put your politics aside regarding the reasons we went to Afghanistan or the fast withdrawal, you will enjoy this movie. It's about a group of US soldiers going from town to town in search of explosives and arms cache on various intels. They didn't trust the first interpreter but took the advice of the second interpreter who lead them into an ambush. They were outnumbered and the whole batallion died except one. This was where we found out that the first interpreter was a good guy and he had bad feelings about the route. He risked his life and the terrain to save the American soldier. After months of recuperations in the states, the soldier had a rude awakening and decided to try to get the man and his wife and son a visa to come to the USA. Months of bureaucracy had not gotten anywhere so the soldier decided to spend $150k of his own money in a secret mission to go back to the country where he almost died to rescue the man who saved his life and his family.
May 3, 2023
Definitely five stars! Excellent acting a wow intense, suspenseful, don't want to miss a minute. True story of Afghanistan war and the value of an interpreter. WHAT OUR SOLDIERS go through for AMERICA!
May 2, 2023
Well done.
May 1, 2023
It's basically a movie about the honor of men. No (practically none) special effects, no zombies and no space aliens. No, it's not a hallmark movie. It's a story that should represent our society, maybe someday again it will. You will not be disappointed in the story, movie or actors.
May 1, 2023
This movie points out one fact of life: Biden's knee-jerk pullout of our troops in August 2020 was a disaster. We were fighting alongside the Afghans; they were our allies and we were making progress. Then Biden leaves them high and dry. They will never trust us again, nor will our other allies. Secondly, the hurry-up pull-out left billions of dollars worth of good usable weapons behind for the Taliban to use against us. The movie fails to show this part strong enough. But a decnt movie as far as that goes.
April 29, 2023
Action packed. Keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout the whole movie.
April 26, 2023
The previews looked pretty good, but I liked the movie much better than that. A good story and well acted. I'm a Guy Ritchie fan, but this is different than his usual work. Good work all around.
April 25, 2023
Best movie we've seen this year. This movie is differently a five star movie.
April 23, 2023
Very intense movie, main characters pull you in to the fact of what our troops faced in Afghanistan. Not only was this an unnecessary and costly war in American casualties lost and the money spent to fund it, it reinforces the fact that we would have never gotten involved in this total catastrophe had it not been for Bush and Cheney sending our boys to fight and die under false reasons they knew to be wrong.