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Kandahar

  • 6.1 /10

  • 1170

  • 45%

Plot

After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down.

Cast

Gerard Butler as Tom Harris
Gerard Butler

as Tom Harris

Navid Negahban as Mohammad 'Mo' Doud
Navid Negahban

as Mohammad 'Mo' Doud

Travis Fimmel as Roman Chalmers
Travis Fimmel

as Roman Chalmers

Ali Fazal as Kahil Nasir
Ali Fazal

as Kahil Nasir

Bahador Foladi as Farzad Asadi
Bahador Foladi

as Farzad Asadi

Nina Toussaint-White as Luna Cujai
Nina Toussaint-White

as Luna Cujai

Mark Arnold as Mark Lowe
Mark Arnold

as Mark Lowe

Corey Johnson as Chris Hoyt
Corey Johnson

as Chris Hoyt

Hakeem Jomah as Rasoul
Hakeem Jomah

as Rasoul

Tom Rhys Harries as Oliver Altman
Tom Rhys Harries

as Oliver Altman

Movie Facts

Rated

  • R

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • May 25, 2023

Production Companies

  • Thunder Road

  • G-BASE

  • MBC Studios

  • Capstone Pictures

Production Countries

  • United States of America

  • Saudi Arabia

Spoken Language

  • English

Budget

  • $30,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $9,400,000.00

Runtime

  • 1.98 hrs

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Reviews

A CIA agent in Afghanistan has to try escape the hostile territory when his disguise is blown. If you apply some suspension of disbelief to accept that it would be possible to a single man to survive being followed by an army of enemies, Kandahar is actually a quite well-made movie! Very contemporary, following the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the movie does a good job showing the hostile atmo…

Yet another military pot boiler, starring, once again, Gerard Butler. Kandahar pretends to be open and inclusive. There's a modest plug for nationalism/patriotism, from the perspective of different nations.That said, this film is essentially about saving a man who commits a pretty awful act of terrorism, in another nation, at the behest of the CIA. Its quite watchable, there's a lot of serv…

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