MURPH: The Protector

MURPH: The Protector is one of those movies that ought not be judged by the conventional criteria we apply to entertainment products. It is a documentary with the limited but entirely honorable mission of commemorating the life and sacrifice of Navy Lt. Michael P. Murphy, a Navy SEAL who died in a firefight in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan in June 2005. Murphy was leading three fellow SEALs on a reconnaissance mission designed to kill or capture a Taliban leader when they were pinned down by a three-sided attack of more than 100 well-organized Taliban fighters. Murphy decided to bolt from the cover of the rocks into the open where he could get a clear signal on his satellite phone and call in his position to his headquarters.