SAS Rogue Heros

SAS: Rogue Heroes turns the formation of a special forces unit into a forceful wartime adventure. In North Africa, an unconventional plan depends on men whose usefulness is closely connected to how poorly they fit ordinary military expectations.

Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell and Alfie Allen give the early group different kinds of nerve and instability. The appeal is not simply watching capable men succeed, but watching an improvised organisation try to make those capabilities work together.

Steven Knight's adaptation of Ben Macintyre's book is deliberately stylised. The music and swagger are closer to the energy of Peaky Blinders than to a sober documentary reconstruction. The historical basis does not make every scene a literal account.

It is an engaging choice if that heightened approach appeals. Band of Brothers gives a more sustained sense of an established company, while Rogue Heroes gets much of its character from the argument over what this new unit might be able to do in the first place.