Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
... View MoreAt first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
... View MoreThe movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
... View MoreA film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
... View MoreOK, Let's start this out honest. This wound up in my wife's Netflix queue, and neither of us remembered putting it their. Had 90 minutes to kill, figured, "Whats the worst that happens?" It starts out with "The guy from Burlesque" as my wife referenced Cam Gigandet. Talk about a hackneyed setup... Black ops guy in a bar with a stuffed animal for his daughter that he hasn't seen in a long time. Thugs get angry cause bartender is flirting with him, fight ensues. Somehow we instantly go from parking lot murder fight, to Jake (Burlesque guy) in a black site prison, with open bars where everyone can talk.... And talk they do. We get a stilted introduction for all of our main players in some really bad exposition. It's a black site. No one knows where exactly. Everyone is really bad. Suddenly, some English military guy is leading a raid on the place, and winds up breaking into this base. He comes to the prison, and we find out (Shocking) he and Jake have backstory. For all his bluster about how these warriors were being treated... English military guy leaves everyone locked up. We now have some contrivance about this being a black site, and that the CRT is over two hours away, so our prisoners who have now gotten out of their cells on their own, decide to help thwart the terrorist assault.I'm not going to pick apart everything that is wrong with this movie from here on. Let's say production quality was on the low side. I can live with that. I don't need a ton of CGI to make me happy, in fact, sometimes no CGI is better. There are some continuity/consistency issues that are really hard to ignore. Our sniper has picked up a miracle sniper rifle with unlimited ammo. It is pretty glaring, honestly. The other biggest inconsistency is there is a plot contrivance to hold our protagonists in place for 30 minutes while a drone is flown towards it's closest landing place in Florida. It can not be crashed,or even able to fly below 20,000 feet without a landing facility... But a couple button pushes when it is literally on descent in Florida, and less than 5 minutes later it is outside NYC... And folks who can barely crawl from a gunshot, getting into a fist fight, and then getting shot 3 more times, and it seems to not even slow them down. Inconsistent is all I'm saying here. A continuity editor paying attention would have been really helpful to this movie.Now, for the acting. Across the board, it is not too bad. Sure, everyone is basically playing a caricature, but that is something that was expected here. I can't even blame the actors for that, since it appears to be the way they were written, and directed. No ones acting really jumped me out of the movie as bad. The General though, he was really bad. I don't know if the director told him to act like that, but he was the stand out not really believable character and actor.This could make a great drinking game though, as it was fun to bitch at, and not bad in general.
... View MoreThis film tells the story of six military personnel who are locked up in a secret military prison. They soon find out that their facility is raided by a fully armed squad in order to steal a nuclear weapon hidden in the facility. They have to outsmart the squad to stop the squad's heist."Black Site Delta" starts off semi-interesting. The introduction of the six protagonists is detailed, making viewers know who they are watching. They all have very distinct personalities, especially the weird psychopath who is not particularly macho but delivers a spine chilling performance.The rest of the film, I have to say, is not particularly good. I am particularly annoyed and even exasperated by the characters constantly being in the open, when they are in great perils from many gunmen int he facility. Are the six highly trained soldiers really going to discuss their plan of action in the entrance hall of the facility, when gunmen can be marching down any minute? And is Cam Giganget really marching down the middle of a hallway full of dead bodies, as if he is walking down a runway? Do the characters really have to stand right under a spotlight (the scene of Cam Gigandet telling the woman how he loves his daughter), when the bad guy is literally around the corner ready to shoot them? This aspect of the film is so outrageous that makes me super annoyed.Cam Gigandet's face gets more than the fair share of close up shots. While it may be pleasing to the eye, it also exposes his lack of ability to act. Furthermore, the story is very clichéd too. And surprise surprise, who gets the girl in the film? Granted, the lighting of the film is good. However, when that is the only thing that is good about the film, then there is a big problem.
... View MoreThis epitomizes a bad movie, and I'm afraid the filmmakers spent a lot of wasted money producing it. An independent movie needs to tell a story, and have depth. This production had neither. Just bad actors who they obviously paid too much money for. If you do find yourself sitting down to watch it, and making your way all the way through, you will just sort of feel exhausted afterwards. Like you spent more time trying to figure out how this movie ever got made than actually watching it.
... View MoreWhat a waste of time. Who the hell makes these films and why? Surely the production cost outweighs the incoming revenue? This film infuriated me from the word go, really. I know a lot about low budget film making and I understand that this film is not necessarily the worst low-budget film ever made... but it comes very close.
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