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Special Forces
A journalist of France nationality is abducted by Taliban in Afghanistan, and a team of French Special Forces soldiers are sent in an attempt to rescue her.
12 March 1947
1976, Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, France
11 October 1963
16 December 1973, France
1983, Casablanca, Morocco
16 April 1949
October 14, 2012
Predictable and run of the mill with terrible music and the most generic editing around, Special Forces feels like it lasts the 11 days it chronicles.
October 09, 2012
Could have been hilariously subversive if director Stéphane Rybojad had pushed it further.
October 05, 2012
The film walks a questionable line between Important Issue seriousness and antsy video-game machismo.
October 11, 2012
Solid entertainment, a chest-thumping (and reporter-hating) recruiting film in the "Act of Valor" mold - but with a French accent.
October 11, 2012
"Special Forces" aims to inspire but ends up wallowing in melodrama.
November 17, 2011
War is awful. We get it.
October 11, 2012
It's not only Americans who can make leaden, video game-style exercises in dumb war action.
March 03, 2013
"Special Forces" has nothing constructive to say about bravery or the conflict in Afghanistan. It's just mindless action, and boring to boot.
October 12, 2012
If you turned the sound off and removed the subtitles, you might actually think you were watching an old Hollywood shoot-'em-up.
October 12, 2012
Imagine Saving Private Ryan relocated to Afghanistan and Pakistan and you have the gist of first-time feature filmmaker Stéphane Rybojad's actioner about the rescue of a French journalist marked for death by the Taliban.