Korengal

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Korengal

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Released May 30, 2014

1h 30m

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Filmmaker Sebastian Junger embeds with a unit in Afghanistan to examine what war feels like and what it does to soldiers.

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Korengal finds documentarian Sebastian Junger taking another clear-eyed -- and poignantly thought-provoking -- look at the human cost of modern warfare.

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Louis Black

Austin Chronicle

Remarkably frank, Korengal espouses no one clear sentiment towards war.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 7, 2014

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Tom Keogh

Seattle Times

Most fascinating is the seemingly unanimous feeling that while deployment in Korengal was hard and heartbreaking, these veterans would do it all again just to stay together, to remain brothers who mutually understand something no on else will ever know.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 3, 2014

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Matthew Lickona

San Diego Reader

Not quite a coda to Sebastian Junger's and Tim Heatherington's...Restrepo - more of a commentary track, or a series of annotations.

Rated: 2/5

Jun 27, 2014

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

There is plenty of frustration to be found in wishing Korengal differentiated itself from its antecedent. But depoliticized and empathetically honest documentaries about those who fight for their country are few and far between.

Mar 4, 2021

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Michael J. Casey

Boulder Weekly

Inside the hearts and minds of Restrepo.

Aug 19, 2019

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Bernard Boo

Way Too Indie

A documentary entirely made up of leftover footage from its predecessor, and yet it feels essential, a unique portrait of the wartime experience.

Rated: 7/10

Apr 2, 2019

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It's been a while since I saw Restrepo, but Junger's latest offering took me right back.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Kaikki oleellinen kerrottiin jo Restrepossa, mutta kyllä tämä silti tykitti kovaa. Ja jätkät on kameran edessä rehellisiä: mikä on parasta täällä: "No tulitaistelut. Mistään ei saa samanlaisia kiksejä."

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02/04/23

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Strangely unengaging documentary. Korengal follows the lives of a company of US Army soldiers stationed at an outpost in Afghanistan in 2007-8. It is the sequel to Restrepo, which was nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar in 2011. Maybe it is because I haven't seen Restrepo (yet), but this documentary just doesn't work for me. It doesn't do much wrong - there is a good mix of interviews and live action footage and there is a degree of conclusiveness to it all. Yet I wasn't engaged. The whole thing just seemed to plod along and I didn't feel any real affinity towards the soldiers. There is also a large degree of gung-ho-ness and bravado, which is a bit off-putting. The movie doesn't feel balanced enough. Maybe that's the problem.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Amazing movie the idea of showing war it supposed to be interest me

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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No nonsense, thought-provoking documentary about modern life on the front lines. What's most interesting in the majority view that they miss the combat life and would happily go back because of their bonds

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Somewhat more interesting then it's predecessor

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Sebastian Junger embeds with a unit in Afghanistan to examine what war feels like and what it does to soldiers.

Director: Sebastian Junger
Producer: Nick Quested
Distributor: Goldcrest Films
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Brief Nude Images)
Genre: Documentary, History, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 30, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 10, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $55.2K
Runtime: 1h 30m

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