Review of Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023) by Pucrettub — 29 Jun 2023

Let's get the mediocre out of the way: the sound track and cinematography are nothing special, as others have brought up. Dialog was overall a "meh". The enemy wasn't full on canon fodder, but definitely the middle of that road. But that was kind of the only part of the action that started leaning towards the "over the top", IMO.

Beyond that: it's not perfect, but definitely one of the better military movies in at least the past few years. Some of the characters were lacking, but held up by some of the major roles. Ahmed was a awesome, and so was Kinley, but both made mistakes that helped ground them from becoming John Wicks. A couple other side characters helped, and the overall story, beats, and pacing worked pretty well. I would honestly give it a 7.5, but since I do think it's worth seeing, I will lean it towards an eight here. Not like there are a ton of 8+ movies the past couple of years IMO, so worth a view.