Joven 373 Posted April 4, 2014 So, the daughter of a billionaire is captured by rebels in Vietnam (rebels led by Sang Sum from Mortal Kombat), using the vast wealth at his disposal he hires a highly trained team of elite mercenaries who...oh, wait, no, he goes to a youth prison and convinces a retired/off duty/whatever Major to wrangle up a bunch of kids and offer them pardons in exchange for going into enemy territory and getting her back. Â So after way too much setup involving stupid backstory and nothing of substance, they get to Vietnam, leave the army base they entered at and get deep into enemy territory, they only have 3 days to get her back, ok, better get a move on then...err, well the first day they spend...training. Yeah, maybe something you might have wanted to do before you actually get out into the field. Â Eventually they start trudging their way on foot through the jungle, and that basically is the bulk of the movie, trudging through the jungle coming across one lame excuse for an action sequence after another, theres some personal issues they deal with as they bond, and its all very stupid. Â These people can not shoot, I don't know what kind of acting class they took to pretend they are shooting guns, but waving the gun in the air or frantically gyrating it doesn't quite work. I think Butts is the worst at it, who at one point one handed sideways-gangsta style shoots an m16 while thrusting it forward. Oh yeah, theres a character named Butts. If ever a name needs to be shouted, you can be sure its going to be Butts'. Â Â Join Butts as he mostly hides in the corner and flails a gun around, Brophy and his swastika chest tatoo as he spits like a camel in every scene, Monster the murdering rapist, Lopez the exercise yard shanker with a heart of gold, and the budding romance of Vasquez the proto-michelle-rodriguez and Lamb the whiny coward who came from 21 jump street and learned karate at a chinese restaurant. But mostly stay for Butts. 2 Share this post Link to post
Joven 373 Posted April 4, 2014 So this movie also spawned something much better than itself, in the golden age of FMV games, this movie was translated into a video game. It gets rid of a lot of the pointless things like plot and character development, and adds in much better things, like a shell game for condoms at a Vietnamese whore house. Â Â Â Oh, and its directed, at least in part, by Darren Aronofsky, so theres that. Share this post Link to post
