Kandahar Movie Review

Kandahar is a 2023 movie starring Gerard Butler about a covert spy who has to flee Iran after his cover is blown.

Kandahar is a 2023 movie starring Gerard Butler about a covert spy who has to flee Iran after his cover is blown. Tom Harris, played by Gerard Butler, is an MI6 spy who’s working covertly for the CIA in Iran. He has to get himself and his translator to Kandahar as quickly as possible, to catch the only flight home available.

💡 This post is both a summary and review of Kandahar. That is to say, it may contain spoilers.

Iran’s Nuclear Plant

Tommy, while working for a CIA covert ops agent, Roman Chalmers, played by Vikings’ Travis Fimmel, is instructed to plant a trojan device near an Iranian nuclear enrichment plant.