Megan Leavey

This is a movie based on a real life person. Someone might characterize this movie as a biopic but deep down it's just a story about overcoming obstacles as well as achieving personal bliss and happiness. Which is the most important part of our lives and we tend to appreciate it the more we age.

Megan Leavey, struggling to find her purpose in life (sadly, as we all know this is still a very well-known and relevant struggle for the newer generations) decides to join the US Marines and is fated to find the best friend she has ever had in her whole life.

With some past trauma affecting her life, Megan takes a leap of faith and bets her life on the lifestyle and strict rules of the US Marines. With the hope of climbing out of the big hole she's dug she encounters the animal that will save her life: A dog. A dog that taught her more about life's real treasures. Of love and deep affection for others. Of being there for him no matter what. The lengths Megan takes herself in order to be with Rex is simply inspiring. Her dedication to this dog, as one particular character says in the movie, is "admirable".

Kate Mara was a good choice for the part of Megan Leavey. Her calmness, awkwardness and dry humor keeps us engaged and rooting for her. Of course there are also the men in this movie. Ramón Rodríguez playing the stoic and funny and also the "friend-boyfriend" of Megan, also sells quite well. Last but not least, Tom Felton's appearance as Sergeant Andrew Dean was a surprise, to say the least. His American accent is a whole lot better than the accents of many British actors that tend to play American characters nowadays. On the other hand, you can feel the cringe-ness in many scenes (the script isn't the greatest and sometimes Mara's deliveries are a bit off) but the ending makes those moments worthwhile.

It's been almost 10 years since this movie hit the theaters and we haven't gotten a similar one. We might never will, for many more years to come. A respectable movie about a woman joining a military force is not done frequently. Still, it doesn't mean that what the movie showed us is necessarily the reality of the many women who join these types of institutions in real life. Regardless of whether or not the story was rooted in reality or even depicted the real life story of the real Megan Leavey well, we can't argue that this is a well-made movie with a good cast and has a good and inspiring story attached to it.

This film tells the story of a young female Marine in the United States, who trains and works with a war dog that detects explosives. They work together as a great team, successfully completing many missions. When they get injured during a mission, she fights to adopt him as a pet dog so that the dog does not get put to sleep.

"Megan Leavey" tells a story of a great bond between a woman and a dog that are both very courageous.They have been through so much that it is easy to see why their bond is so particularly strong. The patriotic elements also make the film particularly likable for American viewers. It celebrates a special and intense bond between the female soldier and the war dog, and also celebrates love, courage and war efforts.

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"Megan Leavey" (2017) is a good movie in short. The first hours was pretty amazing, reminded me of "Hurt Locker" (movie which i love). Later it wasn't so involving or captivating or intense, yet i really enjoyed till the end. Performances were very good by all involved as well it has a good directing.

Overall, "Megan Leavey" is an inspirational story very well told. And if you love dogs, you might pick up some handkerchiefs.

Megan Leavey (Kate Mara) is a young aimless woman haunted by a loss and fighting with her mother (Edie Falco). She decides to join the Marines. She gets punishment to clean out the canine pens. She is inspired to join the unit and paired with troubled Rex. They are sent to Iraq.

This has a solid true-life story. It is standardized uplift. The Iraq section is the most compelling which is reminiscent of The Hurt Locker. There are some heart-pumping scenes. Then it changes into something else when she returns to America. There are plenty of good issues like PTSD and the military's treatment of their veteran canines. This is solid inspiring military film.

Although I have gotten emotional over films with dogs as a central part of the film before, Megan Leavey is the first canine centric film I've watched since I became a dog owner myself, and it became an extremely moving experience.

There's no denying an impact a dog can have on someone's life. For Corporal Megan Leavey, it was the military K-9 German Shepherd, Rex, who changed her life. The film covers many years of Leavey's time as a K-9 officer with Rex as they save lives uncovering bombs and other dangerous explosives. There are some typical military sequences that set up Leavey as a sort of, mess-up and misplaced character, but for the most part, the film is a unique and inspired take on one section of the military.

Complemented by a solid supporting cast, the real heroes here are Leavey and Rex. Like any great relationship, there are ups and downs. But there are a few indicators that the bond they share isn't something that can be easily quantified, and that made it truly special. Sometimes people are made for each other and sometimes certain dogs are made for certain people. It's just the way it is.

Kate Mara plays Leavey brilliantly, as she so often does with characters. She's one of these under the radar actresses who always seems to bring their A-game. And if not for the fact that I was looking for a movie about a dog, I probably would have forgotten about watching these trailers last summer. The film itself flew under the radar, but I'm sure glad I checked it out.

8.8/10