12 Strong
For a number of years, films about the War on Terror seemed to be cursed under a shroud of bad box office. "The Hurt Locker" award for Best Picture not withstanding, these films were relegated to a pile of failure and artistic disappointment. Matt Damon could not bring people into "Green Zone" The combined talents of Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep and Robert Redford actually kept audiences at bay in "Lions for Lambs". The less said about "Stop Loss", Rendition" and "In the Valley of Elah" the better. It seemed for some reason, Americans in particular were not interested in the subject. It turns out that what they were not interested in was being told what a failure military action is, and that the War on Terror is not worth fighting. Two films, "American Sniper" and "Lone Survivor" dispelled the notion that Americans were indifferent to the subject or worn out by the themes. It was the viewpoint that seemed to alter...