All Aboard! The Family Series Collection
Book
This bumper collection features 4 great books from the world's best-loved children's author, Enid...
The Official DVSA Highway Code
Education and Reference
App
The ONLY OFFICIAL Highway Code app: all the latest rules of the road at your fingertips. Winner of...
Timber Lake (A Snowy Range Mystery #2)
Book
Michael Brooks is a loner, and with good reason. A short fuse and a tendency to shoot from the hip,...
M_M Contemporary Romance Mystery
Flamingo Boy
Book
A stunning new classic from master storyteller Michael Morpurgo for readers of 9+, in the vein of...
The National Theatre Story
Book
"The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage...
Gareth von Kallenbach (971 KP) rated 12 Strong (2018) in Movies
Jul 8, 2019
This true story is a well told and evenly paced film. It showed a moment in history and the immediate response by the military. It also told one of the more original stories of war. The Nicolai Fuglsig (Exfil) has some well-done action scenes and overall interesting cinematography. I enjoyed the story and for the most part the cast, which also includes Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water, Boardwalk Empire), Michael Pena (End of Watch, Crash) and Trevante Rhodes (Moonlight). Negahban as Dostum is good as the tough, untrusting warlord. I also enjoyed the mix of action and dialog on strategy. Where this film tends to fail is that for a true story it is made more like a typical action film. It is full of semi-cheesy one liners and poorly timed cliché a motivational moments. I really did enjoy the film but at times I found myself trying not to laugh out loud during what should have been serious plot points.
As far as an action film this was a fun story and brought the gun fights and explosions that you would definitely look for. It also shows some the strategic side of the war. At the end of the night I enjoyed the film even though I thought that it could have been a little more serious and a little less campy.
A Most Deliberate Swindle: How Edwardian Fraudsters Pulled the Plug on the Electric Bus and Left Our Cities Gasping for Breath
Book
'That London could have had electric buses a hundred years ago is extraordinary enough, but as Mick...
Walking Home: Great British Adventures ... and Other Rambles
Book
Walking Home - Clare Balding's unmissable new book of Great British Adventures Clare Balding is on a...
The Enchanted Wood
Book
The Enchanted Wood is the first magical story in the Faraway Tree series by the world's best-loved...
Carnival by Kanneh-Masons
Album
Decca Classics announces the release of Carnival, a very special collaboration between Academy...