12 Strong

Warner Bros. | Release Date: January 19, 2018

6.3	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 131 Ratings

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KingriddleJan 19, 2018

Pretty over the top, and felt Chris Hemsworth overshadows the entire film. Weak character development as well.

5 of 9 users found this helpful54

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LostcatJan 21, 2018

Not at all the best war film I've seen. For a film based on a true story. . . it felt like the work of pure fiction. Very inauthentic, and felt as though this film doesn't respect the real story. Very Michael Bayish.

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p_reinJan 24, 2018

If the movie was based on fictional events and it was not pure American propaganda it could have been a pretty good movie.

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arkcentralhqMar 19, 2018

12 STRONG ALL WRONG
I find it inconceivable that Hollywood pumps out such classic one sided US imperialist cliches after setting such high water marks like Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket.
Please, it is propaganda at best, cinematic12 STRONG ALL WRONG
I find it inconceivable that Hollywood pumps out such classic one sided US imperialist cliches after setting such high water marks like Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket.
Please, it is propaganda at best, cinematic fantasy at worst, that 12 elite men take on the might of the Northern Taliban Warlords in Afghanistan immediately after 9:11 disaster. ALL RETURN with fleshy scratches. 'Tis akin to Monty Python's 'just a scratch' Knight.
Why revert to the John Wayne macho, gunslinger cult hero Capt Hemsworth to create a mythical scenario, albeit historical, which tumbles in a free fall to boring predictable outcomes and rewriting the events with a Stars n Stripes bias of "here to set the world aright " with the world's most powerful strategic bombing from 23 kilometres above.
Ironically the climax sees Capt Marvel riding as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse through the jaws of innumerable tanks, mobile machine gunners, rocket launchers etc to take out two Russian Rocket launches.!!
It was as anticlimactic as Donald Trump' s presidency... I am asked to believe this happened. PURE HOLLYWOOD AND FAKE HISTORY @realTrump.
What is this unquenchable appetite for US rewriting of clear humiliations like Vietnam and Afghanistan into mythical sideshows of unkillable heroes who prefer death before dishonour. The dialogue is over burdened with extreme patriotism and only occasionally emits a ray of light that shows the forgotten Truth " Afghanistan is a graveyard for would be world conquerors!". The most moving and truthful part of the movie was the wall with Russian graffiti of the 10 years of wasted lives and futility experienced in the 80's. This made the whole premise of this movie smack of the Unreality of Designated Survivor series which purports to show how Hollywood could lead America back to Greatness. This displaced world leader can only make movies about the past because it has no present glories to celebrate. My problem is that it can't tell the truth anymore so much as romanticised myths. Put it on the pile of forgettable!… Expand

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morbidcorpseApr 19, 2018

A live action, "Team America." I found myself rolling my eyes so hard at all the *America, phuck yeah* cliches, they almost became permanently lodged in the back of my skull. Two hours of my life I'll never get back. Time would have beenA live action, "Team America." I found myself rolling my eyes so hard at all the *America, phuck yeah* cliches, they almost became permanently lodged in the back of my skull. Two hours of my life I'll never get back. Time would have been better spent scratching my balls and sniffing my fingers. You'll find yourself rooting for the terrorists! 0/10… Expand

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TwiTuApr 27, 2018

Had a nice start. I hoped for a Vietnam style anti-war movie. where they admit how useless this war was from the beginning. But no. Its Rambo 3 Refurbished Edition.
Its completely unrealistic and they show pretty much the same battle 4 timesHad a nice start. I hoped for a Vietnam style anti-war movie. where they admit how useless this war was from the beginning. But no. Its Rambo 3 Refurbished Edition.
Its completely unrealistic and they show pretty much the same battle 4 times in the movie.
What really angered me is the fact that they make this operation against Al Qaeda out to be such a heroic task but then forget to mention that the USA today supports Al Qaeda in Syria. All these American deaths were for absolutely nothing. Just like in Vietnam. After Vietnam, as many years later as we are away from the first day in Afghanistan today, America understood what a war they started back then. It pushed out Vietnam movies that were almost all great. They drove tears into peoples eyes, made them swear "never again". And now look at us now. Look at the propaganda movies we do, look at the media and Hollywood helping keeping these wars alive. "Afghanistan was justified! We still need to stay there! You were all heroes! Assad is next!".
Soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq died for nothing and are still killing themselves at home. Nothing. And now we are funding the people who they fought against, just because they are against Assad and Russia.
Unbelievable. This movie is part of the problem.… Expand

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Thinker0009Apr 27, 2018

Did this movie based on true story ,? I won’t buy it . I got questions, 1- mountains tactics were wrong ( **** have been fighting for 40 years)2- if you care about kids why you let them fighting with you) 3- Horses fighters always have aDid this movie based on true story ,? I won’t buy it . I got questions, 1- mountains tactics were wrong ( **** have been fighting for 40 years)2- if you care about kids why you let them fighting with you) 3- Horses fighters always have a back up horse ( this has been over 3000 years tactic when they created the arrows (they say (kill the horse) 3- thousands of bullts didnt kill the horses ? 4- the opponents fighter have their war rules ( no surrender no give up no escape ) if they didn’t have these things why until now are fighting ...the .last thing if you have helicopters.. Why you didn’t use it like Black Hawk or Abatshi ... why you didnt back your 12 men and deploy more men ....… Expand

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FaxthtaxDec 2, 2019

This movie is falling straight into some unrealistic rubbish as soon as the first shot falls behind enemy lines. Team-America patriotic garbage that hold no sense at all. How can a team of 12 men (lead by Hemsworth who can't really act forThis movie is falling straight into some unrealistic rubbish as soon as the first shot falls behind enemy lines. Team-America patriotic garbage that hold no sense at all. How can a team of 12 men (lead by Hemsworth who can't really act for **** backed with a group of arab-allies take out a battalion of Taliban soldiers with tanks, rockets and heavy machine guns on horseback? Pretty unrealistic in a sense that they fire their assault rifles from horseback and hit most baddies they see. Even Rambo was cooler than this. Im lost for words. Much better to watch Black Hawk Down once more.. Now that is some intense stuff.
Predictable, over-heroic and bad written trash.… Expand

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myemailnamelolaJul 24, 2021

the movies is really violent. and it akes it rather annoying. does not show millitary

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