Seems like a cheesy premise at first: a US Marine gets captured and tortured by the Iraqis then they keep him alive for eight years before he gets discovered and saved by an American anti terrorist group. Half the plot focuses on him and the other half is about a mentally unstable but incredibly sharp female agent who thinks he deflected to the other side because there would be no reason for the Iraqis to keep him alive that many years. Everyone questions her sanity and she get called up on taking antipsychotics.
This all seems like too many convenient plot building sensational coincidences, but the acting directing and editing are so amazing that we don't pay any attention to that. The ambivalence of both characters is so great that we are on the edges of our seats the entire time wondering who is crazy
This all seems like too many convenient plot building sensational coincidences, but the acting directing and editing are so amazing that we don't pay any attention to that. The ambivalence of both characters is so great that we are on the edges of our seats the entire time wondering who is crazy
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