Casualties of war.

A GRUELLING AND GRUESOME TRUE STORY OF NAVY SEALS' FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL IN IRAQ

- REVIEWS BY DAMON SMITH

WAR is hell - sickening, relentlessly brutal hell - in Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland's bravura snapshot of blood stained brotherhood during conflict.

Based on Mendoza's minute-by-minute recollections of a real-life 2006 Iraq War mission during the Battle of Ramadi and interviews with his for mer US Navy Seal team, this real-time drama is a physically and psychologi cally gruelling assault on the senses.

In November 2006, Navy Seal team Alpha One led by Captain Erik (Will Poulter) gains access to an apartment building under the cover of darkness, accompanied by Iraqi scouts Sidar (Heider Ali) and Farid (Nathan Altai).

Residents are held hostage as soldiers assume surveillance positions on the building's second floor.