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Sean Mullin Henry Alex Rubin. Top credits Director Henry Alex Rubin. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Semper Fi. Photos Top cast Edit. Jai Courtney Callahan as Callahan. Nat Wolff Oyster as Oyster. Finn Wittrock Jaeger as Jaeger. Arturo Castro Snowball as Snowball. Beau Knapp Milk as Milk. Leighton Meester Clara as Clara. Lance E. Nichols Balfour as Balfour. Dane Rhodes Capros as Capros. Rob Mello Tony as Tony. Sylvia Grace Crim Carrie as Carrie. Ashton Leigh Val as Val. Henry Alex Rubin.

More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The story sees Courtney as Cal, a by-the-book police officer who makes ends meet as a Marine Corps reservist along with his rowdy and inseparable group of childhood friends. When Cal's younger, reckless half-brother Oyster Wolff accidentally kills a guy in a bar fight and tries to flee, Cal forces him to face the music. After an unfair sentence, Oyster fights for survival in a dangerous Pennsylvania prison system while Cal and his friends are deployed to fight the lethal insurgency in Iraq.

After Oyster accidentally kills someone in a bar fight, he's given a year sentence. The rest of them are shipped off to Iraq. The action moves back and forth between Iraq and Oyster's experience in incarceration. The guards pick him out for sadistic treatment.

Cal is convinced Oyster is going to be killed in prison, so when he returns from Iraq, he decides to bust Oyster out, using his training as a police officer and a Marine. This is the shift in the movie. The prison break is elaborate, requiring all hands on deck.

The war veterans will work the prison break like one of their training drills at Fort Drum, like one of their operations in Iraq. But improbabilities loom. What will happen to Oyster afterwards? Where will he go? Won't there be a manhunt for him? If this is what "loyalty" looks like, I still have some questions. Combat veterans using their skills in an inappropriate civil environment is an interesting topic, but it's mainly ignored in "Semper Fi.

Rubin and his cinematographer David Devlin have a good eye for landscape, light, and mood, and they handle complex sequences—like the battles in Iraq—very well. This is a very male-driven film, which is not necessarily a problem, but it is a problem when a character like Clara is so thinly drawn you can't even keep her in your head when she's off-screen.

She's anti-war, she's gotten out of her blue-collar environment, she's getting an education. Jaeger is threatened. There are all kinds of unexplored possibilities here! I know I complain about "too much plot" a lot in my reviews.

I'm not against plot, but I appreciate small observant movies and character-driven stories not ambitious to put across a message. The Warrior Games is a multi-sport event for wounded, ill, or injured service personnel and veterans. It was hosted at the U. Sponsored by the Timothy T. Day Foundation , it also ensures that dogs are properly trained and related expenses in caring for their service dog are provided.

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