Good movie but grossly overrated

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Nu Image were once the most prolific producers of bland action films for the video market. They followed in the footsteps of Cannon films and PM Entertainment, emerging in the early 90s with their own stable of stars and distinctive low-budget aesthetics. The identifiable Nu Image style was a result of their reliance on dated methods of filmmaking, recycled themes and their recourse to South African and Eastern European production locations. U.S. Seals 2 is just one of many military action films made to this formula and it is the manner by which it exceeded expectation that has led many to highlight it as a minor classic in American action film history. Director Isaac Florentine has shown a great deal of promise in his career so far, despite failing to produce a 100% satisfactory product in my opinion, his work is notable for the injection of Hong Kong-style action choreography. U.S. Seals 2 was something of a breakthrough in his career and still one of his best films. An in name/theme only sequel to a typically dire Nu Image production, U.S. Seals 2 manages to surprise and amaze with its fight choreography, courtesy of Andy Cheng, a former member of Jackie Chan's exemplary stunt team. The film has many flaws, action clichés are present in abundance and the story is merely an excuse; the plot is a hybrid of Thunderball (Terence Young, 1965), The Rock (Michael Bay, 1996), Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973), Broken Arrow (John Woo, 1996) and M-1:2 (John Woo, 2000). The characters and their actions are all drawn from familiar paradigms; from the hero who re-enters military service to face an old adversary, to the dying soldier who pleads for a message to be passed to his beloved. While some may be unable to stifle laughter during a viewing, Florentine and Cheng (co-starring and serving as 2nd unit director) deliver undeniably impressive action scenes that ensure this is a must see. If you approach it in the correct frame of mind you will applaud the creativity and forgive the flaws in logic. This is a martial arts film that requires an excuse to unite a team of skilled professionals to perform almost super-human feats. As such the plot is constructed on the premise that the villain is hiding out on an abandoned island, clouded in a methane gas. This means that guns are not permitted, requiring hand-to-hand combat. Genius. Unfortunately the concept is weakened by the fact that chains and bladed weapons are clashed with aplomb. But oversights in common sense just make this even more fun!

There is no way, someone could work on this movie and consider it a work of art. If there is a human being on this earth that envisioned this as their masterpiece, I will weep for mankind and the gene pool this person is adding too. I know this is a bit overly dramatic, but I'm bored and have nothing else to do. Enough people have written comments on how bad this movie is, so I won't mention the whooshing sounds, or the horrible acting, but I do feel the need to mention, that the high tech weaponry that one of the Seals was carrying that didn't cause a spark, was a paintball gun w/o the CO2 tank. I just mention that.

U.S. Seals 2 has become a hit among martial arts film fans. The film is full of stylized Hong Kong action. This is not a big budget film and yet the scope of the film is highly impressive. For Hong Kong action films lovers, U.S. Seals 2 is loaded with slick action choreography. The film's pacing is consistently fluid and the action is exaggerated, but fierce.Director Isaac Florentine is with out a doubt that he is one of the most talented yet sadly under rated directors working in the action Martial Arts genre. the film delivers in any department. the action the excitement and the humor.

After seeing the first U.S. Seals, which was an atrocious movie, I figured I would see U.S. Seals II just for laughs. Well it certainly didn't let me down in that department, but for all the wrong reasons.You can tell any movie is going to be bad when it opens up with the main character cocking his pistol, staring directly at the camera, and giving this RIDICULOUS grin. Then his commander says, "Good Luck, and Godspeed!". Even if he was a good actor (rest assured, he is not), it is still a very corny line.The action starts up pretty quickly, and just like in the original, it goes down hill even quicker. Even the average viewer will notice that the "weapons" (are they even real guns??) change several times in the battle. I almost burst out laughing when the SEALS start shooting the bad guys and one of them runs out WITHOUT A GUN and jumps over some crates like he was hit. Then a bad guy is shot and flies through a wooden door and flips around several times until he decides he is dead. It is also enlightening when a SEAL says, "Hey Amigo" and shoots the guy who promptly flies 30 feet onto the ground, the rolls around a few times. I was rolling on the floor when a jeep on fire plunges in a lake (you can see the fire go out) and then boom!, BOOM!, BOOOOOOOOOOM! and half the port blows up!! Then, after the bad guy in the tower is shot for the 5th time, a SEAL pulls a bazooka out of nowhere and blows up the tower and the bad guy flies (extremely fake).The worst part about this is the first 30 minutes of the movie have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the rest of the movie. I'll spare you the horror of the rest of the movie but I'll briefly discuss the other bad parts:-Everytime anybody moves their hand, head, body, gun, or whatever it makes this retarded WHOOSH sound - just like the first movie.-About every 30 seconds the movie starts playing this ridiculous, and very tiring, chinese music.-One of the bad guys uses his DEADLY SCARF to fight a SEAL - he whips it around and knocks the SEAL down, eventually killing him with a SCARF.-The army major is wearing absolutely no army patches on his uniform, and also has an Australian accent.-Not a single US weapon is used in the movie.-The rest of the movie is set on an island NORTH of Siberia, yet everybody is wearing shorts and t-shirts?-The head SEAL is also apparently quite adept at operating a submarine.-(SPOILER) The whole plot basically revolves around 2 nuclear missiles on an island that is permeated with methane gas - precluding the use of guns. Now you would think that the whole grand scheme of LAUNCHING A MISSILE off the island would set off the methane. The head bad guy is also smoking a cigar the whole time, but a tiny spark in the end blows up the whole island??