The Covenant

The Covenant

After an ambush, Afghan interpreter Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save US Army Sergeant John Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down.

  • Released: 2023-04-20
  • Runtime: 123 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Drama, War
  • Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Swen Temmel, Sina Parvaneh, Antony Starr, Abbas Fasaei, Gary Anthony Stennette, Hadi Khanjanpour, Altamasch Noor, Dar Salim, Emily Beecham, Sean Sagar, Rhys Yates, Marcel Zadé, Bobby Schofield, Alexander Ludwig, Reza Diako, Ash Goldeh, Fariba Sheikhan, Kawa Mawlayee, Mo Ahmadi
  • Director: Guy Ritchie
 Comments
  • Serva - 29 June 2024
    Cheap production
    The Covenant is decent as a movie but is marred by practical aspects of filmmaking that brings it down. It's obvious that no real guns were used, and while it is impressive how relatively real they have made the firefights look and feel, you can tell it's all CGI. It has that uncanny valley look to it. I understand that it is a safety concern, but it takes all the energy and impact out of these scenes.

    It's also obvious that this isn't Afghanistan. I'm sorry, but Spain has way too much vegetation to be able to portray the arid desert terrain of Afghanistan convincingly. I assume this is a concession for budget reasons.

    There are some cliché scenes especially towards the end. But the one shot that stood out to me was when they tried to excuse a certain Wikileaks war crime shot. That made me a bit disgusted and knocked some points of the rating.
  • jzyvkxzs - 10 May 2024
    A+
    The only way you will ever know the answer to the questions that I ask is if you have a problem with it and or you don't want to talk with them about the problem and I would be more than happy to talk with the problem if that makes sense and you don't know the solution is just. I don't know want to talk to the person who doesn't understand what is wrong in the world and what the issue with this is with this this country is not about money but rather about how much it is about how we can do something about to solve this io Oioyoo The ioo OThe opooyy I'm going back in a little later and I have a meeting with my friend and her mom so I'm not sure what I'm supposed do to ryeyweitotittototo OThe has a good point here though that the most important part is to keep it.