Filmmaker Alex Garland wanted to make a different kind of war film. Would it be possible, he wondered, to take 90 minutes of a real incident involving combat and recreate it as faithfully as possible?
He posed that question to former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, who served in Iraq and had in recent years built a second career in filmmaking, advising on sequences like the assault on the White House that ends Garland's last film, “Civil War.”
