Theo Robertson The Horror Channel announced this film was NAZI DAWN I had no idea what NAZI DAWN was about so looked up it on this site . Some silly story about six chicks getting involved with dead fascists . If nothing else it was a very recent film and I'd have the dubious privilege in being the first reviewer on the page . I did think it slightly strange that for a film where the protagonists were going to be slutty teenagers it starts on board a ship in the present day Persian Gulf . Within 20 minutes I started thinking there was a blooper somewhere and looked up the film roles of Lance Henriksen and Gary Stretch because this almost certainly wasn't the film that the Horror Channel claimed they were broadcasting .. And it wasn't , it was a 2008 film called BLACK OPSI'll watch NAZI DAWN whenever it gets broadcast and compare it to this one and in the meantime wonder if it might be better than this one which is a dark horror thriller . When I say " dark " I don't mean it has a gloomy downbeat atmosphere I mean someone has failed to pay the electricity bill which means it's almost impossible to see what is going on so you just have to concentrate on the dialogue which isn't up to much . By concentrating on what is being said you do notice something very unlikely and that is Henriksen and Stretch play characters of father and son . What's unlikely about this you ask ? Absolutely nothing except Henriksen talks with a heavy American accent and Stretch talks with a broad English accent . If you are expecting an explanation for this your hopes are raised when father character starts mentioning his wife and family and you expect him to say he sent his son off to public school in England but this goes totally unresolved and the story continues as the audience wander around in the dark on a visual and narrative level in this generic and muddled horror thriller

Scarecrow-88 Benevolent, powerful spirit gruesomely massacres officers on board an old Naval ship(nicknamed as a "Naval Museum" by the military)on Middle Eastern waters. Commander Combs(James Russo)decides to send in Captain John Willets(Lance Henriksen) and his team of Black Ops soldiers to see why the ship hasn't reported in the last several days. What Willets finds is a slaughtered crew with only his son, Colin(Gary Stretch), the engineer Slab(Robert Pike Daniel), and what is presumed to be a Muslim terrorist(Lee Majdoub). What the Black Ops team soon discovers is what is exactly behind the bloody rampage, the spirit of a Nazi killing machine, Gunther Neumann(Grant Mathis)whose power is "fused" with the ship, a concentrated energy which can possess humans, using their bodies as a vessel of destruction. So Willets and his men have quite a battle on their hands, to say the least. They also must halt the ship from entering Iranian territorial waters by any means necessary. Along with the Black Ops team are a duo of paranormal investigators, and we later learn of why they are on board, their mission is to "capture" Neumann's essence, to use it as a weapon in the field! Look, I could pick apart the plot contrivances, along with the gaping holes of the script, but, when it comes down to it, the movie is about soldiers combating a supernatural force throughout the darkened corridors of a 60 year old warship. Black Ops soldiers consider their mission rather routine, boarding the ship in a goal to find and destroy the enemy, which is, in their mind, a terrorist. The whole Gunther Neumann storyline, I admit, is preposterous and really is a bit hard to swallow. But, the idea of a vengeful spirit attacking members of an elite squad seems entertaining enough, but when the details are revealed behind who it is and how he's able to move about, it's hard to take it seriously. I disagree with others regarding Henriksen just cashing a check with some non-performance..I felt he was quite well cast, even at an older age, as a strong authoritative figure who competently guides his men through a very troubling situation which grows more and more implausible by the minute.The hurled insults about the lighting, I also disagree with. You are watching men marching deep into the bowels of a ship, and I thought there was enough light to see characters clearly. I think, in the case of "Black Ops", that the use of hand-held cameras works because there's a free-flowing nature adopted by director Roel Reiné, and he's able to capture the action within confined, claustrophobic spaces and areas where movement would be difficult otherwise. The violence itself isn't too graphic, and this could be used against "Black Ops" as most of the attacks aren't visibly shown in elaborative detail. The production history behind this movie is rather interesting, how the filmmakers put together a quick story, were allowed to shoot on a ship similar(..but not quite)to what the Navy has in their arsenal. For a "cheap jack" production, it works rather well. I, for one, thought it had some spooky, suspenseful moments here and there before the Gunther Neumann revelation rather sucks the wind out of the sails of the movie. The "Body Snatchers" plot element is worked into the plot and seems to take away from what could've been a rather intriguing actioner shrouded within a ghost story.

Jan Strydom Well, to say that BLACK OPS (a.k.a DEAD WATER) is Oscar gold would probably anger a lot of people who have seen it, but for me as a horror fan, it was like watching a movie with my TV turned off, everything that mainly took place in dark areas you couldn't see and the places that were supposed to be well lit, seemed like the light was cast by using very cheap bed lamps, honestly the lighting effects in this film are so poor adjusting your TV's contrast makes it look like your watching a fog bank, the storyline is uninteresting, plainly put, the acting seems decent but the dialog was poor so the acting is more shallow Overall, If you don't like a movie that mainly takes place in the dark and don't have an interesting storyline, well try something else of course.

empireoflight the script was rewritten and the film re-shot.The acting was watchable but the dialog was pretty blasé.The director must have blown his budget in the first 20 minutes of gore because after that it was "let's turn the lights down real low so no one can see anything and generate some fear that way." Although the cast only had one woman, they still found a way to have a scene with her naked in the shower. If that doesn't speak volumes about this film, maybe you will enjoy it.I wont spoil it for you with details but the ending sucks. You'll be able to guess what happens at the end by 0:30 in (military time).Don't waste your time here, watch Outpost again... it's the same story done on a ship...