


Back in the States, several of the SEALs who were part of the mission are killed, execution-style, by Russian nationals. The enemy combatants turn out to be Russian ex-military forces - which is not only a surprise, but something the team’s CIA overseer, the weaselly Robert Ritter (Jamie Bell), is trying to keep from them. Navy SEALs, heads up a mission in Aleppo to rescue a CIA operative who’s been taken hostage. In the opening sequence, which looks like an outtake from “Zero Dark Thirty” shot in the rubble of “Full Metal Jacket,” John Kelly ( Michael B. “Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse” is a lively formulaic action-hero origin story, dunked in combat grunge, that demonstrates how a resourceful lead actor can bend and heighten the meaning of a commercial thriller.
