‘12 Strong’ is based on a remarkable story, but tells a different remarkable story

A remarkable story inspired “12 Strong,” but the remarkable story actually told by “12 Strong” is a different remarkable story. Maybe the story is slightly different, and maybe it’s a lot different, but one thing is for sure — it happens to different characters.

For a movie like this, an inspirational historical drama, this is a bit of a problem, because half the satisfaction comes from knowing (or believing) that everything on screen is at least grounded in fact. But in “12 Strong,” it’s all dramatized. Chris Hemsworth plays a character based on a real person, but the other American soldiers are fictional, which means the incidents and the details of the battles are fictional, too.