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Kajaki: The True Story (15)

Adventure

Kajaki Dam 2006. A company of young British soldiers encounter an unexpected, terrifying enemy. A dried-out river bed, and under every step the possibility of an anti-personnel mine. A mine that could cost you your leg - or your life.

More information on this production is available at kajakimovie.com.

The critical consensus

Tense, blackly comic and troubling because it’s so recent and so real.

****(*)Nev Pierce, Empire Online, 24/11/2014

This is a suspenseful and deeply moving modern day war movie that marks Katis out as a talent to watch.

****(*)Matthew Turner, The List, 24/11/2014

This film possesses a lacerating power that reinforces its self-contained claustrophobia.

****(*)Andrew Pulver, The Guardian, 27/11/2014

Gut-wrenchlingly realistic and refreshingly nonpartisan.

***(*)(*)Adam Woodward, Little White Lies, 27/11/2014

The acting is uneven but the film possesses authenticity and intensity – and an obvious significance, as one of the first war movies to look at the war in Afghanistan from a British perspective.

***(*)(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 28/11/2014

After a slowish start it grips throughout. A fine achievement.

****(*)Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 30/11/2014

While the film-makers are clearly keen to pay tribute to the heroism of those involved, the film itself wisely avoids glib romanticism, opting instead for gruelling realism.

***(*)(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 30/11/2014

Authentically harrowing.

***(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 30/11/2014

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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