It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

The first must-see film of the year.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

For one, this film was not thought out well enough to give this a more exciting feel. Another reason is the soundtrack itself. I found it to be really similar to one other soundtrack which had a successful time at the box office. And that was the movie called The Rock. Remember when the movie starts where Ed Harris's character was dressing? and when you hear the words from another soldier voice over "They're not coming for us are they?" That's when the soundtrack gave that familiar tone as the titles began. Well that sound I heard in this movie. Although changed to a degree it did still sound the same and it upset me. This was a badly done film using small increments of another soundtrack mixed with new sounds but not enough to disguise. Whoever financed this was going to feel a bad pinch later on, also the sounds of machine guns being loaded before firing also was a bad move. The same sound over and over again with the same clicks. Too many repetitive sounds to be accounted for. Really bad film, yet the only thing which seemed good enough was the editing.

I stand at the crossroads of life. Until I saw this film I was happy to tread the humdrum career path I had laid for myself as 2nd year computer scientist. However, somthings are inexcuiseable, and this film is one of them. My Immediate thoughts were "Someone actually paid for this!", and "Won't the pain go away ?". Later, after it had (thankfully) ended, I was struck by the timeless thought - that comes after all mediocer to Bad films - "I could do better than that!". This time it had lasting effect, I am now considering ditching CS and looking seriously at enrolling in Film school. If you are thinking about going to film school I would recommend this attrocity, as it will leave you with a warm glow - safe in the knolage that you too could have done better.This sort of thing must be stamped out.

I agree, C Thomas Howell is brilliant as Sanchez. I could have done without the excessive bad language but screen writers nowadays seem to have those F-words built into their scripts and then fit any other words around them. I seem to remember seeing Matt Frewer as a henchman but he doesn't seem to appear in the above cast list.

Typical Simauldi's casting a leading actor (Howell) as a villian and unknown canadian actor as a lead. Well, only if he casted a more tougher and macho looking guy as the lead because the actor is kind of bland. But as for Howell, who seems to be doing low-grade film lately, really chews up the role of Sanchez Boone, a eccentric bad guy and really goes over the top on the role. See it if you are a Howell fan, otherwise beware. The same set and Howell was used in DEAD FIRE the same year.