A more brainless (and aimless) cousin to Guy Ritchie's excellent "The Covenant" with almost the same plot and themes, "Kandahar" tries to be both your typical Gerard Butler action film on a bit grander scale* and serious Middle Eastern political thriller in vein of Peter Berg's "The Kingdom" and hardly succeeds in any of those.
Yet, it has few solid action sequences (including a proper one at night, which is extremally hard to film and even harder to watch) and…