Title - The Covenant
Production - Fresco Film Services, STX Films, Toff Guy Films
Starring - Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Johnny Lee Miller, Alexander Ludwig, Emily Beecham, Antony Starr, Sean Sagar, Jason Wong, Rhys Yates, Christian Ochoa Lavernia, Bobby Schofield, Reza Diako, Fariba Sheikhan, Abbas Fasaei
Writer - Ivan Atkinson, Marn Davies, Guy Ritchie
Director - Guy Ritchie
Release - 27 April 2023
This was the most mainstream Guy Ritchie movie and I realized I've never wanted to see this. And it was also 30 minutes too long.
There was a way-too-long trekking-over-the-mountains sequence that was unnecessary, and also another way-too-long making-phone-calls sequence that was even more unnecessary.
The gun fights sequences were the only saving grace but there were really only two of those in the entire 2-hour running time.
There really was no reason for Jake Gyllenhaal or Guy Ritchie to make this movie, other than when at the end of the movie where the text on the black screen mentioned how the Talibans took back control of Afghanistan after U.S. forces pulled out, and many interpreters were left to fend for themselves against the Talibans without receiving their promised visas to the U.S. as a form of awareness.
And during that last battle, also, there were just a whole lot of unnecessary drama with the extraction. This movie belonged back in the 90's.
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