newmikeburch
I dig Christian Slater so I figured I'd give this movie a shot. He's been good in most everything I've ever seen of his (Heather's and Gangsters to name just 2 off my head) Boy was I sorry I chose to watch this movie. It was a complete waste of time. The acting is pitiful and many of the special effects look very elementary. The main cast should have at least had some sort of athletic ability...some training with real soldiers would have benefited them greatly. Many of the battle scenes were nearly laughable (especially the last shot during the village raid). The jet-ski scene....my nephew could have made better graphics on his laptop. Maybe Christian should stick with sinister roles and not try to do military movies. And the supporting cast....atrocious, and that's being polite.
deterrence2012
Desperately seeking some form of entertainment, I rented this rubbish from a Redbox. I'm a huge fan of military-themed movies and figured with Christian Slater and Sean Bean (2 halfway-decent actors) this would be worth watching.Boy was I wrong. Right from the beginning you can see that Slater is not cut out to play a hard-gritted special forces soldier. This poor casting decision ruined the movie from the beginning.Slater's uniform was also a joke. But, not as funny as the scene where he runs into an open field and picks off several "Taliban" (they looked like characters from an Arab spoof comedy) with a Call of Duty assault rifle.Please save yourself the dollar and time of this worthless junk.Rob
j b
This movie is full of great actors. I like Sean Bean, Ving Rhames, and believe it or not Christian Slater as well.The opening sequence is so laughable, I thought it was on purpose. I expected that this sequence was some sort of staged military exercise the rich guys were participating in. DId Christian Slater really do dive rolls while taking out bad guys?? There wasn't one iota of realism, the weapon was wrong, the uniform was wrong, and why was CS taking on a Taliban village solo?Later, the entire group of mercenaries have a beach party...on the same tiny island that the bad guys are on. Complete with bonfire and shooting pistols in the air. Really?It got worse from there. I didn't think it was possible to combine the talents of A list actors and make a movie worse than a B movie. I wanted to like this movie. Really I did. After the first 20 minutes I considered turning it off, but then decided to watch it to see how bad it was. Turns out it wasn't "so bad it was good". It went past that and was "so bad it was actually bad"The premise wasn't too horrible and this story could have been OK. I don't expect we will see this director again.
garycbelleville
First I am glad that I didn't read any of the reviews before watching this. I think that if I had I might not have bothered watching it. I know now that I would have lost something, a few good laughs. The first 15 minutes I wanted to turn it off and watch something else but I gave it a chance and then surprisingly it got a lot better. I didn't try to watch it as a serious movie but more of a comedy and it worked, worked great. I just loved to see a bunch of rich pampered babies get bullied for once it was so much fun. Look not a great movie but damn was it fun to watch. I laughed like I had not done for a long time. To watch this movie with a critical eye is just not the way to watch it. just sit down , relax and put on your young kid eyes and laugh.
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