Lone Survivor vs Return of the Kickfighter

Lone Survivor has the higher audience score (7.4/10 against 7.2/10 for Return of the Kickfighter). Return of the Kickfighter is the shorter watch at 1h 33m compared with 2h 1m. Return of the Kickfighter is the older of the two (1987 against 2013). Both are action, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Lone Survivor posterLone Survivor2013 VS Return of the Kickfighter posterReturn of the Kickfighter1987
Lone SurvivorReturn of the Kickfighter
Audience score★ 7.4/10★ 7.2/10
Year20131987
Length2h 1m1h 33m
GenresAction, Drama, WarAction, War
Country––
DirectorPeter BergAnthony Maharaj
Main castAlexander Ludwig, Jerry Ferrara, Taylor Kitsch, Ali Suliman, Eric BanaRichard Norton, Dick Wei, Huang Kin-Lung, George E. Mahlberg, Rex Cutter

Synopsis

Lone Survivor

Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.

Return of the Kickfighter

The plot concerns a unit of US marines operating in the Vietnam war during 1970, with the movie opening on a raid in a village. After massacring the villagers, the marines steal the villages gold, much to the objection of their Vietnamese translator and guide. Skip forward past the credits sequence; it's now 15 years later, and members of the unit are getting murdered one by one. This leads to the former head of the group, now a high ranking…

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