R | 2h 3m | War, Drama | April 21, 2023
“Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant” stars Jake Gyllenhaal as U.S. Army Sgt. John Kinley, top-dog of an elite, hunter-destroyer taskforce designed to demolish Taliban weapons outposts.
Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim, L) and Sgt. John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal, front-center) in “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Following an ambush, Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim) undertakes a truly Herculean mission, schlepping the wounded, nearly-dead Kinley halfway across Afghanistan, over mountains and through the underbrush, on a makeshift gurney, and then a rickety wooden cart, with the Taliban in hot pursuit.
Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim) trundles Sgt. John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) over hill and dale to save his life, in “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
When Kinley later learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to the United States as promised, he, like all American special operations personnel who operate under the powerful code of conduct of never leaving a man behind, heads back into the Afghanistan war zone “Sandbox” to single-handedly make good on that promise, before the Taliban can hunt them down….