"Survivor" is carried out with great gusto, based on the facts described in the bestselling book, Marcus Luttrell story about brotherhood, heroism and extraordinary courage. The film depicts the true story of the incredible mission of four Navy SEALs commandos who had neutralized one of the leaders of Al-Qaeda, but eventually was forced by hostile forces into a trap in the Afghan mountains. The group was ambushed by Taliban fighters and cut off from any help, and its members have to face difficult moral dilemmas. Putting their lives on the line, four battle-hardened men had found in a deck of strength and courage to take the fight to the end.

The book by Marcus Luttrell, the only survivor from that mission soldier, has become for many people an inexhaustible source of motivation and a very moving lecture about the strength of the human spirit in a challenge of daunting challenges, physical and moral. The "Survivors" in Luttrell played by Mark Wahlberg. The roles of other members of the elite teams who gave everything for his soldier brothers, starring Taylor Kitsch as Michael Murphy, Emile Hirsch as Danny Dietz and Ben Foster as Matthew "Axe" Axelson. The role of Erik Kristensen, commander of the Navy SEALs mission in Afghanistan, played Eric Bana.