Kandahar (2023) review

"Contractor" Tom Harris (Gerard Butler) helps out the ladies and gents back at Langley by destroying an Iranian nuclear reactor with malware and then gets offered another job - and a local guide, Mohammad Doud (Navid Negahban) - but his cover is blown when journalist Luna Cujai (Nina Toussaint-White) is nabbed by terrorists and there's a data leak.  Like Ritchie's The Covenant (also released this year) it has the decency to acknowledge the valuable assistance translators have provided our troops overseas (and the need to help protect them from retribution), but it bumbles the rest: the subplots are poorly handled, the driving-and-shooting scenes go on far too long and the last fifteen minutes are laughably bad, with literal death-from-above (specifically, Hellfire missiles) raining down and "saving the day."  Butler, who co-produced this, gives his best effort (as usual) ... but he really should be more judicious in selecting projects: after all, he is a trained lawyer.