I’m not sure why director Guy Ritchie has his name in the title of his latest film, but because this is I think the best Ritchie movie I have seen, I will pass up the chance to snark at the o…
). And no, this is not based on real people, at least not by name, but rather is a fictional account of what many involved in that war went through, and in the case of the interpreters,are going through . In order to get these very necessary people to work with the Americans, they were promised visas for them and their families to start a new life afterward in the United States, but it was a bureaucratic nightmare, and promises made were not always promises kept.
The first 45 minutes or so finds the pair on the hunt for IEDs, door-to-door in dangerous situations, with Ahmed key to getting valuable information and clearly helping as things get intense on the battlefield. Eventually the two are on the run together — and go straight into an ambush, where Kinley is nearly fatally wounded, barely conscious. Ahmed remarkably finds ways to keep him alive while on foot, dragging him on a stretcher across the country to safety.
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