‘Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant’ Review: Jake Gyllenhaal In Soaring And Emotional Afghan War Drama
deadline.comI’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 only misstep in Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.
It about as exciting, gripping and moving as war films get — especially one set in the murky Afghanistan conflict in which the U.S.
found itself immersed for more than two decades. This smartly focuses on two men, the apparently iconic U.S. Army Sgt. John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim).
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, still are going through (the film’s end credits state that many interpreters left behind have been murdered by the Taliban or gone into hiding since the U.S.
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