There’s a brutally efficient energy to this war movie recreating with 4K digital clarity a real incident involving US special forces on a chaotically failed mission in Iraq in 2006, co-directed by Alex Garland and former US Navy Seal Ray Mendoza; the latter was a military consultant on Garland’s previous film Civil War, and reconstructed the events from his own memories and those of his comrades. It is a visceral, immersive, often skull-splittingly loud film; real-time action with a found-footage aesthetic, featuring opaque technical dialogue and eerily ice-cold qu...
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