Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

alansmithee04 One day, a guy went to see his brother and said: "Hey'um bro! I just went and seen a motion picture film show called Near Dark." And his brother said: "Well, I jest saw me a movie called Platoon." Then the two brothers began describing their individual flimic experiences at the same time, talking over each other louder and louder until it seemed they were talking about the same film.Then they wrote it all down on the back of a Piggy Wiggly bag and called it "The Lost Platoon." The Lost Platoon is proof positive that no matter where you go, everyplace looks pretty much the same as everyplace else. In this case, France and Nicaragua both look pretty much like Turkeycrap Alabama.With great steaming hunks of inane right-wing dialog ripped bleeding from the pages of Soldier of Fortune magazine and salted with ill-remembered scenes ripped off from the poorer Schwartzenegger films, The Lost Platoon inches it's way through 86 minutes of alternating hilarious and tedious footage.By all indications, the bring-your-own-fatigues invitational shoot was a huge success, judging from the number of obese loser militia types that showed up to be filmed firing off their M-16s with near orgasmic glee. Adding to the film's woody setting is the acting, which at least is semi-obscured by the amateur-nite direction.But even more offensive to even the most brain-dead movie goer is the film's near incoherent grasp of history. Dates are bobbled. Uniforms glaringly inaccurate. At one point a picture supposedly taken during WW II clearly shows a WW I vintage tank.Die-hard fans of both vampire flicks and '80 style action should avoid this film with extreme prejudice.

Claudio Carvalho In 1991 in Nicaragua, an American reporter recognizes four soldiers he met in the World War II who have not aged. He realizes that the group is a vampire platoon. The premise of "The Lost Platoon" is very interesting, and there is a good camera work that recalls "Evil Dead". However, the screenplay is silly and direction and the performance of the cast is very weak. The ideology hidden in the plot, defending the intervention of the American government in the Civil War of Nicaragua is also a crap. The cover of the DVD is very attractive and probably is the best of this forgettable flick. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "Pelotão Vampiro" ("Vampire Platoon")

angelynx-2 Low-budget production values and some ludicrously over-the-top acting, but there's still a good little vampire flick in here, The idea of an immortal platoon that has been following the course of human war for a century definitely gives it points, as does the showboat performance of Stephen Quadros as hotshot soldier Walker and the understated, authoritative calm of David Parry as the troop's Civil-War-veteran leader, But I especially like the casting of vampire soldiers as a tireless force *against* oppressive evil, the low-key humor, and the mythic air that the film gives "los mejores" as the spooked peasants call the lethal, fast-travelling revenants. A nice little surprise; I'm glad we saw it.

mikhail080 Movie exudes testosterone at every turn, featuring soldiers from different wars in time who may or may not be immortal vampires. Not your typical Gothic vampire fantasy, although fangs are beared. The only woman included in the movie is a beautiful but vicious killer, so the focus is on wartime combat and militaristic posturing and posing. Dozens of extras are machine gunned down, EACH one dying with a loud post-production shout of pain. The mustached actor playing an evil general is so over-the-top you'd think he stepped out of "Airplane -- the Movie."There's much to recommend here, too. The guy who plays a WWII grunt looks like he was transported from a 1942 Warner Brothers war movie. Especially effective is lead performance by stoic David Parry as a soldier from the Civil War. Parry remains calmly understated as the leader of the lost platoon, and demonstrates how intelligent acting and good looks can make movies like this endurable, and even entertaining.