Synopsis
A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
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Cast
- Chris HemsworthCaptain Mitch Nelson
- Michael ShannonChief Warrant Officer Hal Spencer
- Michael PeñaSgt First Class Sam Diller
- Navid NegahbanGeneral Dostum
- Trevante RhodesSgt First Class Ben Milo
- Geoff StultsSean Coffers
- Thad LuckinbillVern Michaels
- Austin StowellFred Falls
- Ben O'TooleScott Black
- Jack KesyCharles Jones
Recommendations
- 70
TheWrap
The Chris Hemsworth vehicle is is often hammy, but also wryly funny, breath-stoppingly tense, and uncommonly intelligent. Its January dump is a disservice to a promising debut feature. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
It's virtually all Hemsworth's show and he's entirely up to the task of carrying the film on his broad shoulders: He's charismatic, fearless, confident, jokey and a good old Kentucky boy who just wants to get the job done and return home to his wife and daughter. - 70
New York Daily News
Battle sequences on horseback are executed perfectly for maximum pulse quickening. It helps to have a few good men — with apologies to Army vets disgusted with the Marine reference — cast in the supporting roles. - 63
Chicago Tribune
12 Strong sticks to the basics, without much interest in the differentiating specifics of the men involved, or anything on a geopolitical scale beyond the impulse these Special Forces veterans shared in the wake of 9/11. It seems to me a qualified, limited success. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
12 Strong winds up being an almost-good film about some great American soldiers. - 60
Screen Daily
12 Strong wants to be triumphant but also mournful, rousing but also thoughtful in its chronicling of America’s place in a changing, complicated world. That tonal nuance is commendable...but the results are more muddled than thematically intricate. - 60
IGN
When it works, it's engaging and there’s just enough to keep you entertained but you can’t help feel the heroes deserve something meatier. - 50
Variety
On its own terms, the film is watchable enough, but it’s blunt and stolid and under-characterized, and at 130 minutes it plods.
