Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Leofwine_draca Italian genre directors found their budgets ever falling throughout the 1980s as the country's film-making industry went into a decline. Sadly, this meant that for fans of the prolific Italian exploitation films churned out since the late '50s, the quality of the films was always declining and productions started getting few and far between. Indeed in the late '80s and early '90s, barely any movies got released outside of their native country and those that did – for example, KARATE WARRIOR – were hardly worth it in the first place. DAYS OF HELL is a dirt cheap war movie (a genre that briefly flourished in Italy in the wake of America's Rambo and his friends) that marks a sorry way to end thirty years of solid entertainment and spectacle. Cult director Tonino Ricci – the subject of much criticism throughout the years, but who could usually be relied upon to deliver entertaining B-movie produce – re-teamed some of his cheapest and hardest-working "stars" from the likes of RUSH: THE ASSASSIN and its sequel RAGE and the end result is a curiously uninvolving slice of vintage escapism.The action rages constantly as DAYS OF HELL begins to tell its story. A hospital tent in a field is attacked by a shot of a helicopter (this shot is repeated ad infinitum throughout the movie due to budget constraints). Apparently a scientist and his daughter are kidnapped, although the action is so confusingly portrayed that you're never quite sure of what is going on. The scene shifts to a really crappy set, supposedly in Miami, where the heads of state (a bunch of old, tired-looking guys) recruit a crack team to go into Afghanistan and rescue the two kidnapped hostages. That's the whole plot set-up. The rest of the film is just one great big long action scene.The action comes thick and fast and never lets up. Dozens of enemy jeeps and trucks are blown up and attacked by our heroes. Attacks by angry rebels lead to lots of cliff-top shoot-outs and gun battles through the terrain. The attack on the enemy base is violent and full of death and there are bandana-wearing traitors, a kid who throws grenades at people, and some really cheap special effects work. Sadly none of this is as exciting as it sounds. For a start the budget constraints mean that there isn't even any room for squib hits. Guys just fall over bloodlessly when shot. Mini trampolines are used at every opportunity to show enemy soldiers flying through the air. Case in point: two radio operators in a room. A grenade is thrown in, blowing one out of one window. Another grenade is thrown in, blowing the other out of the opposite window. There are lots of stunt men used in this film but Ricci is unable to make the action very moving or even exciting, despite the effort put into it. Sure, a good storyline always helps, but I don't mind watching mindless action if it is done well. Sadly Ricci has neither a good story or any good action, the result is a not very good movie.Beefcake hero Conrad Nichols (THOR THE CONQUEROR) takes the lead as the muscular commando fighter. Sadly his acting ranges between wooden (any dialogue scene) and overacting (his open-mouthed battle sequences) with no balance in between. He's more hopeless here than in any other film I've watched him in. Thankfully there are a couple of good character actors in support who nearly make the film worthwhile (I say nearly as, unfortunately, their characters are bland they are unable to make much of them). Howard Ross (THE PYJAMA GIRL CASE) is a battle-hardened mercenary with dyed black hair and Werner Pochath (BLOODLUST) plays his usual stereotyped character, a nervous and edgy team member who loses it more often than not.Watch out for the scenes where characters discuss chemical weapons coming out of Iraq to attack the West. A strangely prophetic line of dialogue in a movie which is in all other respects a waste of time, effort and (little) money. When the setting amounts to a piece of wasteland and a field somewhere in Italy you know you're in for a bad time. When that same field is used as a dozen different locations you just know that the film is in trouble. Sadly, DAYS OF HELL cannot escape such constraints, making it a film that only really dedicated genre fans might get a kick out of.

HaemovoreRex Conrad Nichols a.k.a. Luigi Mezzanotte stars in this frankly tedious flick as captain of a group of mercenaries who are assigned to sneak into Afghanistan to retrieve a doctor and his daughter who have been seized by rebels. Unbeknown to our heroes however, they are being set up and the mission as requested by the American government (with the Russians in cahoots) is intended to be their very last. The reason for this decidedly snide treachery is that the father and daughter have been compiling evidence against the manufacture and utilisation of chemical weapons. The insidious idea is that after our mercenaries have accomplished their mission they will be eliminated along with the father, the daughter and any incriminating evidence present.Sadly the above plot sounds far more exciting than has actually been implemented on screen and what we are in fact left with is a boring 90 minutes of our heroes driving around in a jeep punctuated by the occasional poorly executed fire fight.No scenes stand out as of any particular interest and acting, as might be expected, is pretty dire. A fair number of explosions throughout fail to lift the proceedings any either. Formulaic and mundane in the extreme, skip this one is my advice.

dmc102 Badly produced film in the endless Italian action genre. This film scrapes even the barrel of 80s Italian cinema. Unconvincing in every respect, the acting is almost as bad as the dubbing and the production values are almost as bad as the European locations posing as the middle east. A movie which seems to be utterly useless, a complete waste of time and cannot be recommended. Not even fun, it is simply tedious and boring from start to finish and doesn't fit into the so bad it's good category. Footage of Miami was actually shot for an earlier film "Thunder Squad" directed by Umberto Lenzi. Luigi Mezzanotte (here credited as Conrad Nichols) worked with director Tonino Ricce (here Anthony Richmond) on the equally terrible "Thor: The Conqueror". Thankfully, both seem to have crawled back into the woodwork of Italian cinema and haven't bothered us since.A truly awful film, not worth any amount of money. There are many fun Italian B-pictures, but this is not one of them. This is a grade Z movie and is just as bad as it sounds.If there was a 0 out of 10, this would get it, but I'll have to settle for a complimentary 1 out of 10.

Sorsimus Boring Italian commando rescue mission film.Elite group of three commandos are given the mission of rescuing an old professor and his daughter from the Russian forces in the middle east. They are meant to work in co-op with the local islamist rebels.Nothing in this one to recommend. Uninspired acting, the most basic plot, no budget, no innovation, "no nothing".Bottom of the barrel.Released on video in Finland.