Film

12 Strong

Director
Nicolai Fuglsig
Certificate
15
Running Time
130 mins

How do you whup Taliban ass? Why, send in Thor, of course. Chris Hemsworth, for it is he, stars alongside Michael Shannon in this US military heroism yarn based on Doug Stanton‘s non-fiction bestseller Horse Soldiers.

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, a bunch of rufty-tufty US special forces are dispatched to Afghanistan where they join local fighters from the Northern Alliance to give those dastardly Islamists a sound thrashing on horseback.

By robin askew, Tuesday, Jan 23 2018

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