gretz-569-323863
I watched this on a Saturday afternoon while doing laundry, and that's about what it's good for. don't expect "Citizen Kane." movies like this require some suspension of disbelief. plot holes you could drive the proverbial truck through, characters behaving in ways no real human being would ever behave...you have to be able to say "Oh well, at least I'll see some stuff get blown up." and you will, so it's all good.most of the fight scenes seem to have been filmed in a forest fire, with shadows and smoke obscuring much of the action--or, more precisely, non-action, since as other reviewers have noted, Val Kilmer's character is able to beat bad guys to a pulp without ever striking a blow.you will also have to ignore some knee-jerk lefty politics. yeah yeah, illegal immigrants good, Halliburton bad...we get it. but the plot is so tenuous it really doesn't matter.in summary: if it's on free cable, watch it; you'll be moderately entertained for an hour or so.
skinr54
First, let me say that Val Kilmer does a great job at being a badass.Case in point: The stupid guy punches at him, he dodges and Stupid smashes a glass display case. The dumb guy charges him and ends up running into a table, breaking it. The dumb guy, desperate, stabs Kilmer in the leg with a knife; Kilmer pulls up his pants leg to reveal a prosthesis. In one final show of awesomeness, Stubborn Dumb Guy charges him, he dodges and the dumbass flies headfirst through a plate glass window.Recap: Val Kilmer just beat the crap out of a guy without even touching him.Later, he even manages to be badass while telling a young girl that his favorite flavor of ice cream is Chunky Monkey.Back to the film: It starts out with a Stephen King-esquire feel (a man's friend has disappeared, and no one will admit to knowing him), but quickly turns into a movie more like No Country for Old Men.Overall, a superb action movie. 7/10
vitaleralphlouis
This could have been an enjoyable action picture for Americans (we 50%) who respect and love our soldiers, and admire their ability to get a tough job done; BUT..........Val Kilmer plays a Special Forces veteran, home from Iraq, who goes to Arizona looking for his buddy, where he'll eventually find a load of trouble from a bad guy named Rhodes. What spoils the movie is the Liberal Democrat viewpoint that the Iraq War was/is being fought for the sole purpose of profit for war racketeers like this guy Rhodes. Mr. Rhodes, we are to believe, is a typical Republican. Worse, we are told the entire Border Security problem is for the sole purpose of more profiteering and that the Minuteman volunteers are a bunch of henchmen on the take from the likes of Rhodes. Can anybody say George Soros? Can anybody say Obama? Cut-n-run Democrats might enjoy this but they ought to just be embarrassed by it.
jsorenson777
The good guys are good and the bad guys are real bad. Val Kilmer plays a one-legged Billy Jack in a nice twist on a story that will continue forever. Former special forces bad-ass who doesn't want to fight no-more gets roped into an evil environment (with a Dick Cheney clone as Darth Vader) and he finally gets pushed a little too far. He moves fast invisibly "Like a ghost" - with one leg. Works as well here as in old-fashioned radio theater.Low-budget and thus sparse but well done with myriad close-ups and all characters as caricatures. There is no pretense of realism and thus it works as a comic book on screen. Screenplay, direction, camera work and acting are all at least interesting.
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