The Contender (2000)
Directed by Rod Lurie
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agendas explode into a battle for power.
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July 19, 2020 – This gritty war movie, directed by Rod Lurie (“The Contender”) about soldiers fighting to survive against long odds at an isolated, nearly indefensible, outpost is about bravery as well as the ultimate futility of American military efforts in Afghanistan.
Directed by Rod Lurie (The Contender) from a book written by Jake Tapper, the movie functions as well as an ensemble war movie can.
These are effective bits that recall some of Lurie’s earlier work, films like The Contender, The Last Castle, and the under-seen Resurrecting The Champ.
Working from the nonfiction book of the same name by CNN’s Jake Tapper and adapted by Oscar-nominated screenwriters Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (The Fighter), director Rod Lurie (The Contender) has crafted The Outpost, a truly harrowing, often terrifying look at the bloodiest American engagement of the 19-year Afghan War—2009’s Battle of Kamdesh.
Lurie (“The Contender”) throws too much at the viewer too soon, only to spend another two-thirds of the running time developing the characters.