Mercenaries
Mercenaries
| 05 August 2014 (USA)
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A diplomatic official is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of elite female commandos is assembled to infiltrate a women's prison for a daring rescue.

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AutCuddly

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

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Sameer Callahan

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

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Aiden Melton

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

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Roman Sampson

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

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Michael Ledo

Ulrika (Brigitte Nielsen) wants to be president of anarchy torn Tajikistan. In order to do this she kidnaps the President's daughter (Tiffany Panhilason) and demands the president eliminate her competition and make her president. After a series of bad plot point explanations, the only people who can rescue the daughter are women, and the only women they can come up with are in prison. They managed to assemble a team of four mercs, creating a female Expendables grindhouse, that is still Asylum grade. The women are quickly introduced by their unlikely rap sheets. They are Cassandra Clay (stunt double Zoë Bell - Raze); Kat Morgan (Kristanna Loken - Blood Rayne); Raven (Vivica A. Fox- Kill Bill); and Mei-Lin Fong (Nicole Bilderback- Bring it On...Hey! Those Cheerleaders were tough!).Along the way they are aided by a Yuffie Kisaragi type character (Obscure FF VII reference). Things don't go according to plan. Blah, blah, blah...look for a sequel, because if Asylum made "Sharknado 2," quality films is not an issue.It is Asylum and this is a "B' list of Hollywood bad a** females. The dialogue is hokey by design as when Clay tells Lexi, they are "doing bad things to bad people." I missed an references to past films made by the actresses which would have been a plus to the dialogue. For some reason the action didn't grab me as much as it should have. The lack of character development subtracted from lines and scenes. Should have been better. They dropped the ball on this one. On the plus side, they didn't work for Eric Roberts.Might work as a cheap rental.Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

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SnoopyStyle

The US President's daughter is kidnapped in Kazakhstan by Ulrika (Brigitte Nielsen) and her men. With rumored weakness for women, four are recruited from prison on a suicidal mission. Cassandra Clay (Zoë Bell), Kat Morgan (Kristanna Loken), and Raven (Vivica A. Fox) join explosive expert Mei-Lin Fong (Nicole Bilderback).These are B-action actresses in an F-level action movie. It's a female Expendables without any budget, or filmmaking abilities. The writing is horrible. It's cheap. Kazakhstan looks like a Mexican village backlot. Even the action is lackluster. ICBMs are not that small. This is all pretty hopeless.

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suite92

The Three Acts:The initial tableaux: Ulrika kidnaps the President's daughter. The ransom is the overthrow of Ganzar, a fictional country that Ulrika wants to rule. Great. Ulrika has a pathological hatred of men, and a deep disdain of women. Even better. The President is in a funk, so trusted aid Mona runs the op to recover the daughter.Mona goes to prison to recruit female tough cases to make the extraction.Delineation of conflicts: Ulrika wants the ransom; the US does not wish to pay it. Mona wants the prisoners to do the extraction; the prisoners are hardly interested. Mona hopes to make the prisoners offers that they cannot refuse. Ulrika wishes the extraction to fail; the prisoners would like to get their individual pay offs.Cassandra was a captain in Delta Forces; she will be tactical command. Raven was CIA, like Mona, and will handle the close in wetworks. Mei-Lin specializes in explosives. Kat is a talented sniper, who will be sniping. The egos are as big as the talents here. What are the chances that they will not kill each other instead of the enemy?The local teenager Lexi wishes to help the team in return for passage to America. Resolution: This ends pretty much the way I expected it to.

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siderite

Too bad someone didn't want to spend more time on the script of this film. The whole idea is similar to The Expendables, where an ad-hoc team of dangerous females is sent to save the president's daughter from a female warlord... by a CIA female agent. Oh yeah, it is that kind of movie where everything is from a recipe and they changed salt with sugar and called it new.Anyway, there was a lot of potential in the movie. Instead of going in hot, they had to charm their way in and by that I don't mean the usual woman ways from movies, because the warlord was a woman, too. So just from this little detail the plot was a little bit more interesting than the usual action flick. Also the actresses, even if they are far from acting prodigies, are kind of known and capable. Zoe Bell was Xena's stunt double, and then there are Vivica Fox, Brigitte Nielsen and Kristanna Loken for crying out loud. I was amazed that Mona was Cynthia Rothrock. I didn't recognize her and she has only one fighting scene when she kicks Vivica's behind.Alas, all the potential was in vain. The script was ridiculous, the direction criminal and the extras I don't think they were even actors. I am pretty sure they shot the same guy to death at least two times. The budget must have been insignificant, but that is really no excuse.I admit, I know little about the movie industry, but I cannot understand how the things that cost the most are the one that are done best, while the things that only require some interest, some personal effort, do not. Was it really more difficult to write some good lines, sketch a few good scenes, than to prepare and execute shooting scenes, explosions, flying and landing planes, etc?

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