By: Lana K. Wilson-Combs
Director
Ric Roman Waugh has worked with
Gerard Butler on the movies "Greenland" and "Angel has Fallen" and they've returned for duty in the gritty, war drama,
"Kandahar."
This movie has an old school spy thriller vibe about it and as always, Butler nails his character's macho swagger.
He plays Tom Harris, an ex-MI6 agent who occasionally works for the CIA. After he blows up an Iranian underground nuclear facility, the next assignment he's given by his handler (Travis Fimmel, TV's "Black Snow") is in Afghanistan. Harris’ identity is compromised when secret documents are leaked.
Now, Harris' plan is to get his Afghanistan translator Mohammad (Navid Negahban, Disney's "Aladdin" and TV's "Floored and Lifted") and fly out of the Taliban-occupied Afghanistan to an extraction point in Kandahar.
Gunning for him are elite special forces including a motorcycle riding Pakistani agent named Kahil (an excellent Ali Fazal, "Death on the Nile" and "Furious 7"), an Iranian operative (Bahador Foladi, TV's "The Breakthrough") and the Taliban. Nothing goes according to plan. Harris must devise a new strategy if he wants to get out alive.
Gerard Butler has a certain aura about him that makes his movies feel even more special. He elevates "Kandahar" from being another run of the mill war torn drama. In addition, there are impressive action sequences throughout "Kandahar" and the film's twisty and suspenseful plotline, courtesy of screenwriter and former military intelligence officer Mitchell LaFortune ("Last Breath"), will keep you on edge.
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Look At This Trailer For
"KANDAHAR"
Lana K. Wilson-Combs is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), The American Film Institute (AFI), and a Nominating Committee Voting Member for the NAACP Image Awards.
