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Lame script, awfull acting.....

posted 17 years ago by jorjel_golf2
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The movie begins with an epic image of a boiling capital city (unnamed of course), because the comunists has lost the elections (where is the national army? probably gone fishing...; -the elected president (which speeks romanian but has a russian name???) is beeing evacuated in the U.S. embasy which looks like Saddam palace; -the soundtrack has arabian influences (totaly unsuited); -
on the streets peoples use a language that is a romanian-russian mix (i bet neither a romanian or a russian understands it); -the american helicopters are beeing changed often (PUMA /romanian helicopters, APACHE /above a desert, HUEY in a forest landscape, again PUMA when the marines arrives, and again HUEY at the end. -bad acting (not only from JCVD)
I`m very tired now otherwise i would write many more slipups seen in this "movie"...

[–] Crispin-19 17 years ago

Going to watch it now, I dont have any high expectations but I think I will be somewhat entertained. The funny thing is though that the Moldovian location probably should have been in the middle east but im sure they "chickened out" :P

[–] screamingdarknss 17 years ago

Lame post, awful spelling. *rolls eyes*

Hunny, the city was Moldavia. It wasn't unnamed. And guess what?! Moldavia has been under both Romanian AND Russian/Ukrainian rule!! How about you know what you're talking about BEFORE you open your mouth?!

[–] porosus 16 years ago

Im sorry but I agree that this was awful. Boring, useless script, simply nothing to move it along. The worst part is, when I finally thought that we were going to see some decent action with the fight at the end, it was ruined by some of the worst-timed slow motion that I have seen in a good while. The director/editors have obviously never had much experience as to how to cut a fight scene based on what I saw. Its hard to admit that heroes from the past have had their day, but with Van Damme constantly putting stuff like this out, its hard to keep making excuses for him (same goes for Seagal).

"Innocent?Is that supposed to be funny?"

[–] pmiano100 16 years ago

1. How come the hero "Sam Keenan" has a Belgian accent?

2. Does anybody really believe a British woman reporter would have an affair with an American naval officer? Most of them are so leftist, they'd sleep with bin Laden first.

3. If this movie isn't proof that Van Damme's career is irretrievably down the toilet, I don't know what is.

4. If those guys are typical US Marines, I'm glad I joined the army.

5. Why so much mindless violence? So they wouldn't have to develop the plot or the characters, dumb-dumbs.

6. Naval officers and marines don't shout for the "medic." They shout for the "corpsman." Medic is an army term.

7. Military and naval officers are NEVER the second in command of a US Embassy. They are attachés and advisers only.

[–] jorjel_golf2 16 years ago

Moldavia is a region not a city from Romania (historical Moldavia is under romanian rule). The region that was under russian rule is in fact Basarabia but now is an independent state, known as Moldavia. The movie doesn`t mention any real city name, better if it was called "Alice in wonderland".
I know very well what I`m talking about because I`m a romanian and I really think that you are the one who doesn`t know what is typing. Some history lessons are recommended.

[–] Cortese01 12 years ago

''Tell them they want ice cubes in hell'' haha :)