Peter Berg is surly becoming a favourite director of mine with his films about true life tragedies and incidents, I first saw a film he did called Lone Survivor with Mark Wahlberg about Operation Red Wings way back in 2005, definitely give that film a go if you love emotional war films.

Patriots Day does exactly the same thing and shines another light on yet another dark time in American history…. the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing, oh boy this was amazing and again Peter Berg packs an emotional punch, from us seeing the explosion by using actual footage to seeing real pictures and the survivors talk about the attack, what I loved about this film is it uses actual footage of the attack, the moment the terrorist goes to the store and even uses the actual images of the terrorists themselves, it truly was an eye opening film as it shows what happens after the attack, from the FBI investigation to the manhunt that followed in Watertown Boston.

The manhunt scene is one of if the not the tensest edge of your seat moments, from the moment the first shot is fired all the way up until the very last bullet is fired it is one of the moment amazing scenes filmed, also may I also shout out the guy who was held hostage in his own car, not only was he calm and chilled out but he gave the cops the exact location as to where his car was, thanks to a GPS tracker built in to his car.

All in all Patriots Day is again another eye opener, we see exactly what happened in great detail and accuracy, most importantly the infamous manhunt for one of the terrorists, as I remember watching that live over here in the U.K. everything from the national guard all the way up to them finding the guy hidden in the boat. My final rating for this film is a solid 10/10 oh and this has possibly one of my favourite lines in it, during a shootout one of the cops says to the chief “sir we’re under heavy fire” only for the chief to reply with “yeah no shit” there are some other funny lines in here but I won’t say all of them as it will take a really long time to type the but anyway guys catch ya later 🙂