Mohammed, a Taliban Fighter, is captured by the US Military in Afghanistan and is being transported to a mysterious detention centre in an unnamed Eastern European country. When his transport crashes he makes a dash for freedom through the forests and snow-laden terrain of a country he doesn’t know.
There are flashbacks that remind us about the war, but this story does not focus on that, or indeed on any of it’s political ramifications, as it essentially about the extreme lengths and measures that Mohammed must go to just simply survive this relentlessly tough isolated terrain whilst being pursued all the time by the US army. It’s a harsh violent journey that is both brutal and bloody and is explicitly filmed in such close up detail that shows the sheer desperation and determination of Mohammed clinging on to his liberty.
A powerful and intensely physically performance by Vincent Gallo that is as stunning as the landscape itself (magnificently photographed). Mohammed doesn’t utter a single word throughout the movie, yet Gallo makes sure we feel all this man’s pain.
A chillingly horrific story that Polish Director Jerzy Skolimowski has made into a spectacularly compulsive thriller. Unmissable.
★★★★★★★★★
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