60
Metascore
44 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The PlaylistCharlie SchmidlinThe PlaylistCharlie SchmidlinTogether, all four cast members help draw a line across the narrative—separating when we were watching a mildly engaging depiction of names, dates, and locations, and a hellish, immersive situation with no easy outcome in sight.
- 70VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangBerg’s blunt, pummeling style offers few nuances and makes no apologies, but his broad brushstrokes have clearly found an ideal canvas in this grimly heroic rendering of hell on earth.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe film is rugged, skilled, relentless, determined, narrow-minded and focused, everything that a soldier must be when his life is on the line.
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreThe characters are only superficially sketched in, but we still fear for them, understand their code and above all else, appreciate the dirty, bloody, high-risk work these professionals do. That they go through all this and risk everything, by choice, is something Berg, to his credit, never lets us forget.
- 50New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithThere hasn’t been this bizarre mixture of hooah and death since John Wayne hung up his combat boots.
- 50The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayThe simplicity of Lone Survivor eventually becomes a handicap, because after a certain point, the film becomes just one long battle sequence, lacking narrative ebb and flow.
- 50IndieWireEric KohnIndieWireEric KohnLone Survivor is a grotesque action movie at times impressively directed by Peter Berg that combines the brute masculinity with the ugliness of the battlefield and viscerally unsettling shock value. But it's less a depiction of courage than a brutish magnification of anger and pain, both of which it conveys a lot better than the high ground that it reaches for.
- 38Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneSlant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneLike his prior "The Kingdom," Peter Berg's film pretends to dabble in a frothy moral ambiguity, swiftly betraying its true aims with trigger-happy jingoism.
- 20Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichBerg may be adhering to the basic facts, but his movie’s childish machismo is a disgrace to all involved.