Supelice
Dreadfully Boring
Infamousta
brilliant actors, brilliant editing
Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Mark Smith
Okay, this is an action flick, Ice-T, Tiny Lister as super bad boys, Costas Mandylor as the tough hero risking his future with his family to serve his country. I guess if you are fans of those guys there is something in here, but couldn't you have given them a tighter story, and better execution. And, puleeeze, make it a little believable. This is pure formula with too much unbelievability, like when Ice-t rats out William Sadler's character to the president and his staff. Why did I know that Sadler was going to be leak here. That is another example of formulaic casting. Give the guy some roles where he's not the bad guy so its a harder to spot. Or how about the fight at the end where highly decorated Costas' character puts down his gun so he can go hand to hand with Ice-T's character? Then Ice-T doesn't kill him!? What is that? Some kind of honor among thugs routine? It is just too much of a fairy tale to be a good action flick. Costas "sneaking up" on character after character while making all kinds of noise, the enemy compound so sophisticated it controls top secret space satellites, but such shoddy security that the marines' walkie-talkies go undetected as far a underground subs and Costas runs around without any surveillance picking him up. TOO Unbelievable!!!!
smekpepper-1
Most movies begin with the familiar FBI warning that Commercial use or duplication of copyrighted material is Forbidden by law. Violators are subject to criminal penalties...United States Code three-two niner... something or other. The producers of this movie are not subject to the laws they wish you and I to believe in. The entire opening sequences are lifted directly from 'Flight of the Intruder'. Other integral scenes are from movies such as and including 'Hunt for Red October'. I would be ashamed to place my name in the credits for this film if I were involved in its production as most all pivotal scenes are recycled from previous works.
glentom1
Apparently there were more affects from the Y2K problem than we knew about, like this movie made in 2000 for example.When it came on TV early this morning I came prepared with my IMDb.com in hand. So I already knew it was a stupid movie, but I wanted to see what the reviewers were talking about.But I won't go into it, you really have to be at least a "Colonel" in the Navy to grasp the technology in this movie. As a prior Marine Corps Officer, I was sick to my stomach to see the supposed Marine Corps personnel in the "White House", with their bathrobe like uniforms and long hair. They could have hired the lowliest Private in the USMC to provide technical guidance at $45 a day, and he/she would have fixed almost every technical flaw of the military innacuracies.And when the "Colonel" of the Navy reported to the President, I pretty much had it. The movie is still on, but I cannot watch it anymore.BTW, if you want to see a really good "flying" movie, that was made using a lot of stock footage from an earlier movie, watch Dawn Patrol (1938) with Errol Flynn. Its hard to believe that movies 60+ years earlier than this one could still be more accurate, AND expertly use footage from other movies. But I suppose the studio owned the earlier movies back then, as opposed to this movie that just stole them.Aside from technology, acting was better back then too! Oh well, read the other reviews, they do a much better job then me. (p.s., I see that IMDb pointed out IMDb as a possible spelling mistake:)
jfosteriii
This movie has a cast of some very talented actors, great military footage and what appears to be a decent budget...all of which are wasted on a lame story, horrible dialogue and apparently absolutely no military consultants. Ernie Hudson, William Sadler, Andrew Divoff, Erika Eleniak, and Ice-T couldn't save this movie. It would be like asking Jeff Gordon to win Daytona on a tricycle. The first clue to a bad military flic is when the actors aren't dedicated enough to the project to get a real military haircut! A navy pilot with a ponytail?? Get real!