Adam Peters (10%) Poor Wesley Snipes having to be in crap like this. The script even for an action movie (the better action movies always have at least quite good scripts) is really, really poor, clichéd and bland, the supporting cast wouldn't be out of place in a daytime soap opera and a lot of the "action" is made up of old stock footage of planes landing on aircraft carriers again and again. Snipes, just like certain cheapo Seagal movies, is not actually in the movie that much, and when he is he's given just as bad lines as everyone else. There is one OK action sequence, but the awful and boring army intelligence scenes feel like they make up at least half of the run time and they just ruin everything. Snipes deserves better. Avoid.

callanvass Wesley Snipes has had tax issues for years, so he's gone down the route of Steven Seagal, Dolph Lundgren, Jean Claude Van Damme, among others. That doesn't excuse how abominably bad this movie is. It's just over 90 minutes long, and it feels like well over two hours with how excruciatingly laborious it is. It has stock footage from the movie Navy Seals, Iron Eagle, among other things, and no action to speak of, aside from extremely boring shootouts. I don't know how much this cost to make, but it's really cheap looking, and filmed in Romania. I feel so bad for Wesley Snipes, because he is such a talented action star. He is very adept at martial arts, and is quite charismatic. He has barely any lines here, and phones it in. I don't blame him one bit. He's clearly trying to make some quick cash, but he looks bored to tears. He even appears dubbed on a couple occasions. They try to give him this mysterious character, and it fails miserably. He does no fighting here, so even die hard Snipes fans will be disenchanted. I admittedly lost focus on a number of occasions here. It really is that boring. It has many scenes, filled with uninteresting & poor dialog, which seem to go on forever. It's too boring to be so bad it's good, the action is mostly gunfire. Snipes had barely any dialog. It fails on every level. If you wanna see Snipes at his best, check out Demolition Man, or a Blade movie. This movie belongs in bargain bins, and it'll make you weep about how Snipes has succumbed his standards to this drivelDUD

davidfurlotte Everyone has covered all the major military gaffes in this thing and I'm still laughing about an Aircraft Carrier Submarine (wasn't aware the U.S. Navy had such beasts or they let anyone with a Combat Infantry Badge just "borrow" one because he wants to impress the ladies.) But what I'm curious about is where did the tank go? There you had a nice T-80 aka T-72 dependant on what stunt scene was required that seemed to be missing the machine guns to take out non-armoured targets, but here the whole place is blowing up and these guys are all guarding the facility waiting to go up with the nuclear reactor but the tank left? (Guess they ran out of rental money for the tank.) But I have come up with a theory as to who performed what jobs on this production: Continuity: Remember those strippers in the bar in the beginning, one of them was the girlfriend of one of the producers and after she did that scene she only had to show up one day in five to make sure everything was on track, but her boyfriend still paid her.The Military Adviser: This one was tough but rumour has it that it was the pet cat for one of the actors that volunteered because he had been present during a "Rambofest" special that ran one weekend. Well, actually, not volunteered, he got paid with two cans of Tuna.Special Forces Military Adviser: A position filled by an mid-level executive from Eveready batteries who provided the batteries for all those cool white light flashlights that NOBODY could see flashing all over the place in a building at night with HUGE glass windows or NO windows.Oh and by the way, somebody tell me whatever happened to Spetnaz or other Russian special forces? Did the Russians just decide they didn't need them anymore because whenever they needed some special forces they could call on their friends in America to help out? Oh and to the guy that compared the Rangers or Special Forces "acting" in this movie to a group of Cub scouts going on a Snipe hunt. SHAME on you! What a terrible, terrible insult to the Cub scouts. They would have done much much better than that.

balib-1 I can't disagree with the general condemnation of the film found in all the other comments, although for so unpretentious and low-budget a movie I think some folks are being a little harsh. I wish that the filmmakers had thought to make a comedy, a satire on "Rangers lead the way", "SEALs rescue the world", "De oppresso liber"-type films. As it is, they almost did that anyway; not too many clichés were overlooked; if only someone had thought to write comedy deliberately... The aircraft carrier (or, judging by the captain's hat, nuclear submarine) should have been called something like the USS Millard Fillmore (which I suppose isn't any sillier than naming carriers after chairmen of the House Armed Services Committee, as has been done); instead of infantry lieutenants as jet pilots, they could have gone a step further and had, say, uniformed members of the Public Health Service; instead of the off-duty Rangers (or whatever they were supposed to be) being called out of a topless bar, have them attending a Beethoven concert--stuff like that. It could have been hilarious. Has anyone done a film like that yet? We have good satires on James Bondish spy flicks (e.g., Johnny English). How about one on the "Commando film" genre?