UnowPriceless
hyped garbage
Phonearl
Good start, but then it gets ruined
Ariella Broughton
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
Alasdair Orr
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
Leofwine_draca
MILITIA is a low-grade action thriller from B-movie director Jim Wynorski; it's a film best remembered for extensively ripping off footage from the 'Cyberdene' set-piece from TERMINATOR 2 early on in the proceedings. The rest is a hostage/siege/ATF agents vs. redneck loony slice of entertainment with lots of action and explosions and little in the way of wit. Dean Cain, coming fresh from TV's Superman, is particularly wooden here, while Frederic Forrest and Jennifer Beals give far better performances than required.
Mac (macandbg)
Like another reviewer I also saw this late at night with nothing better to do. ( I should have looked some more) I would like to add some more details to the rip-offs of scennes. Of course everyone noticed the T2 scene, but when they left the building in the SWAT van you could actually see a large man with sunglasses driving. Also at the end when they blew up Monte's House (Stacey Keach) the explosion was from the drug kingpin's house in Clear and Present Danger. 1 out of 10 stars...
interocitr@hotmail.com
I'm stunned by how many commentators here think this film features footage either mimicking scenes from bigger budget films or that the filmmakers stole these scenes and put them in their films. The studios routinely offer footage from their movies as potential stock footage for others to use. The early episodes of the JAG TV series were filled with footage from the Jack Ryan/Tom Clancy movies. It works better if the footage is from big budget flops or if only brief sequences are used rather than entire scenes as is the case in MILITIA and it helps if some attempt is made to hide anything obvious that might tip off a viewer as to the source of the footage (the Cyberdine sign being an example here)but there's nothing new about using stock footage to make your movie look bigger than it is. It's been done since the early days of film. If you want a real laugh check out RAPTOR from the same director which uses tons of footage from the 3 CARNOSAUR movies. At one point some soldiers walking (supposedly) through a warehouse pass life preservers on the wall. The reason being that this is footage from CARNOSAUR 3 which took place on a ship.
buerton
I was just reading the review a previous person put on here. They said they enjoyed it. I think the main reason they were enjoying the movie is because they had just figured they were watching TERMINATOR 2! Now...when people steal scenes from movies it's usually to benefit the movie, or even pun the movie, in this case it's to BE the other movie. I think watching this was the scariest things I have ever witnessed as a movie watcher. Every scene was just a redo of the SAME THING from Terminator. I was actually SO scared that I was impressed at how much one can mimic another movie. > To sum it up...this movie is worth buying ONLY if you watch them side by side with Terminator to just to marvel at it's unbelievable stupidity. Thank you.
